Adrian Gray, who oversaw the Bush 2004 voter-contact operation and is now a policy analyst for a New York investment firm, makes the point that as of Tuesday, 530, 813 Ohio Democrats had voted early or had requested or cast an absentee ballot.
However, the EU statement noted that they "and other like-minded states have a long-standing policy, not limited to Kenya, to have only essential contact with indicted ICC suspects", the AFP news agency reports.