February 22, 2010

Mr. David A. Yost

1191 Pollock Rd.
Delaware, Ohio 43015

Dear Dave,

It has been brought to my attention that you, now joined by ORP, are persisting in misunderstanding
what it means to be an auditor.

Your web site had claimed that your are “the ONLY Auditor In the Race”. As I made clear to you when
we both appeared before the Brown County Republican Central Committee, that claim is false and
misleading.

I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), someone certified to perform financial audits, and I have done
so. You are not a CPA and your qualifications would not allow you under Ohio law to perform financial
audits in the private sector. You served in that elective capacity at one time but you are not currently in
that office nor are you trained to be a financial auditor.

As a result of that discussion you changed your web site. I had been prepared to applaud you for
having the courage to admit your mistake and to take corrective action.

However, it has now come to my attention that your new campaign literature persists in misleading the
public. That literature repeats the false claim that you are the “only one who’s been an auditor….” You
and your wife were seen distributing this literature as recently as this past weekend.

What’s more, the Ohio Republican Party’s web site repeats this false claim with its statement that “David
Yost is the only candidate for state auditor who has actually been an auditor.”

Only someone who has never received professional training as an auditor would somehow believe that
only elective office makes one an auditor.

I respectfully ask that you cease the use of such language in public and on your literature. And I
respectfully ask the ORP to do the same.

I have been advised that these issues may violate portions of the Ohio Revised Code and could be
brought to the Ohio Elections Commission.

It is my hope that you will voluntarily cease this activity before any such action would be required.

Respectfully,

Seth A. Morgan, CPA

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Representative 36 District Ohio House
Candidate for Auditor of State

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