The Free Press offers five of its own news stories that could be considered censored stories in central Ohio. Censored does not mean the news items did not have any press coverage at all. Here, censored describes underreported or misreported news items, due to reporter self-censorship or media bias. 1. Romney family tied to voting machine company used in Cincinnati for 2012 presidential election “Vote counting company tied to Romney” September 27, 2012 By Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis “Will H.I.G.-owned e-voting machines give Romney the White House?” October 12, 2012 By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman “Romney family and friends will help tabulate the vote count in Cincinnati: Hart Intercivic holds maintenance contracts on their own machines” October 24, 2012 By Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis (All from freepress.org) 2. Experimental, untested software installed on voting tabulators in 39 Ohio counties for 2012 presidential election “The Free Press confirms installation, secret justification of uncertified last minute election tabulation reporting software in Ohio” November 2, 2012 By Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis “Will ‘experimental’ software patches affect the Ohio vote?” October 31, 2012 By Bob Fitrakis and Gerry Bello (All from freepress.org) 3. Congressional lobby fights to make central Ohio a secret drone zone Ohio lobbying to be home for drones September 14, 2012 By Bob Fitrakis “Know drones: Jim Leftwich has the Wright and secret stuff” April 11, 2013 By Bob Fitrakis (All from freepress.org) 4. Columbus City Schools Tutoring Scandal Scandal, corruption and cover-ups plague Columbus City Schools September 4, 2013 By Bob Fitrakis (From Free Press weekly paper and columbusfreepress.com) 5. City Council and Franklin County concoct financial scheme to benefit private owners of the Blue Jackets and Nationwide Arena “Is the Nationwide Arena bailout an illegal money laundering scam? “ October 3, 2013 By Bob Fitrakis and Jonathan Beard (From Free Press weekly paper and columbusfreepress.com)