Rachel on the Ohio voting scandal - allowing more hours for ReTHUG counties

[malaise]

and no expanded hours for Democratic leaning-counties.

How the fuck do they expect to get away with this? Where are the Feds?

[solara]

1. Where indeed?

I do not get how they can be so obvious about stealing the vote. Where are the feds, indeed.

[fascisthunter]

2. hmmm... good question. Is it something the feds wanted?

[malaise]

4. You cannot have one set of rules for ReTHUG voters and another

set of rules for Democratic voters. This is Jim Crow on steroids.

[fascisthunter]

5. nobody ever wants to go here... the earth is round, not flat...

...now what?

[Doctor_J]

9. Couple options

guillotines, ieds, lamposts & rope...

[fascisthunter]

10. lol

well... there is that. Hopefully we can prevent that from happening, but yes, today's disparity leads to such things.

[Doctor_J]

16. And how do you see it ending otherwise?

the election is in less than 3 months. Pray tell me what you think should be done.

[fascisthunter]

30. wish I knew

[part man all 86]

3. Amazing the blatant 'block the vote'.

And the media is focused on President Obama is lying in a super pac ad, which false of course. Next up, conservatives are pissing on U.S. and the media is saying it much needed rain.

[malaise]

6. It's fugging crazy

then they talk about their freedoms while denying fellow citizens of their right to vote.

[berni_mccoy]

7. Someone has to call them on this bullshit!

[Doctor_J]

8. And a forceful response from Obama or Holder expected

...some time next year.

This is why some Obama voters are disgusted

[spanone]

12. you blame Obama? pffft.

[Doctor_J]

15. And here I thought he was the head of the executive branch, which

is supposed to enforce the law of the land. And I thought Holder, an Obama appointee, was the nation's chief law enforcement office, charged with upholding people's constitutional rights.

Silly me.

[uponit7771]

26. Head of executive branch doesn't = dictator. I do agree that they could be speaking out more

...about these treasonous actions

[Doctor_J]

31. Enforcing the constitution = dictator??!!!??

Holy shit. You admit this is treason, yet don't think the president and AG can or should do anything about it.

Step right up, fellow Dems. uponit7771's post is exactly why the US has turned into a fascist hellhole.

[spanone]

11. the blatant disregard for voting rights should keep the justice dept. busy for decades.

[Doctor_J]

14. What a great idea!

20 years from now we can restore voting rights!

Do you realize how stupid your post is?

[spanone]

19. ah, the brilliant doctor speaks...i'm charmed

[Jackpine Radical]

29. The unending series of REPUBLICAN Justice Departments resulting from the vote jiggering?

Headed by an endless series of Alberto Gonzales, Ed Meese & John Ashcroft clones?

Yeah, that ought to result in a buncha prosecutions.

[SalviaBlue]

13. This is so shameful.

[Doctor_J]

17. Actually it's criminal

Yelling "shame, shame" is unlikely to change the behavior. Arrests and sentences in federal prison might though.

[freshwest]

18. As of August 3rd, here's where the Feds are:

Federal Judge Allows Military Groups To Intervene In Voting Rights Lawsuit |

U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus granted a motion on Monday allowing 15 military groups to intervene in the Obama campaign’s early voting lawsuit, which seeks to restore the ability of all Ohio voters to vote in-person during the three day period leading up to election day.

While Ohio has allowed early voting through this period since 2005, the state legislature restricted early voting this year exclusively to members of the military and their families. Mitt Romney’s campaign falsely smeared the lawsuit, claiming that Obama is trying to take away voting rights rather than restore them. The Obama campaign supported the military groups’ request to intervene.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/06/648961/federal-judge-allows-military-groups-to-intervene-in-voting-rights-lawsuit/

It's really the same case, disenfranchising military along with those in the state. They are going to let this group take the credit or make the case, and I'm guessing they will give them all the help they can to strike down the law. What do you think is going on?

[uponit7771]

27. ..that's what it sounds like to me, allowing the military groups to help and take front seat

[CoffeeCat]

20. This MUST be addressed!

I saw Rachel's coverage of these voter suppression tactics in Ohio and I was enraged. Do people understand that in Republican-leaning counties, election commissions have voted to extend voting hours, but in Democratic-leaning counties Republicans have voted against allowing for these expanded voting hours??

This is so blatant! The election commission in each Ohio county is comprised of two Republicans and two Democrats. Dems and reps both agreed to expand voting times in Republican-leaning counties. When it came time to vote for the expanded hours in the Dem-leaning counties, the Republicans voted NO.

This is so outrageous!!! A blatant abuse if power and obvious vote tampering! All voting hours and days should be alike in all counties.

You know damn well that these crimes are premeditated and highly organized. Count on horrible voting crimes to happen in Ohio. Make no mistake about it, these criminals are planning more voter suppression and other dirty tactics in Ohio.

I hope to hell that Ohioans are raising holy hell about this. The Ohio Dems better fight like dogs to draw attention to these crimes and get expanded voting in their counties NOW.

Fight this thuggery and show these evil Republicans that they cannot steal Ohio and a Presidential election!!

[pinboy3niner]

21. VIDEO link for this segment:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#48603515

[malaise]

22. Thanks pinboy3niner

[malaise]

24. All voting hours and days should be alike in all counties.

And in every fugging state

[uponit7771]

25. +1

[1-Old-Man]

23. K&R - this needs to be on everyone's lips.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. Ok...that makes me think he'll pick Portman. Surpress the vote, add Portman and

win Ohio.

Seriously, Obama Team needs to pick out those states where it is the most obvious they are going to bastardize the election and plan a winning strategy without them. I would figure out a win without Ohio, PA, and FL, if that's possible


on edit: he could lose all these - but he would have to get VA, NH, CO, and NC

[Doctor_J]

32. So your solution is to let them suppress the vote, and win without those states???!!?!?!

Holy. Fucking. Shit. "Let them commit treason. We will work around it"

Jesus Christ, this is the absolute pits for weakness. I thought some posts up thread were the bottom, but you have set new lows.

[LynneSin]

33. I'm curious as to what justification are they actually giving for this

I remember back in 2004 they put more voting machines in rural parts of the state then they did in populous areas like Cleveland or Columbus.

It's just shameful at the levels of wretchedness they'll stoop to in order to make their state GOP even when the polls show it favoring Obama.