Rachel Maddow - Ohio headed toward extra voting time for Republicans only

[Galraedia]

[pharmed01]

1. nothing

[Lasher]

2. Buh bye.

[freshwest]

3. Thanks MIRT!

[cantbeserious]

4. Surprise, Surprise - The Republicans Want To Suppress Democratic Votes In Ohio

Republicans are so predictable.

[JoeyT]

5. In one of the red counties,

Democrats should have voted no and forced him to come in and break the tie. Then when he broke it in favor of more hours for Republicans, they should have thrown a fit.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. How is this Constitutional? Who's suing to block this unequal opportunity

to vote, with expanded early voting on nights and weekends in red counties, and Republican election board members and a Republican Secretary of State blocking equal treatment in blue counties? In statewide and national elections, after all, votes in the red counties get equal weight with votes in the blue counties, but voters in blue counties will get inferior opportunities to vote. Inferior machinery and inferior staffing in blue counties leading to long lines at the polls are bad enough without enshrining inferior voting rights into Ohio law.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. My thoughts, too...

Reminds me of Ken Blackwell and Katherine Harris...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. How elections are handled is a county by county issue.

Disparity between counties is ONLY a Constitutional issue when it adversely affects repiglickers' chances.

See: Bush v. Gore.

The Court specifically avoided making that case a precedent for this very reason.

[erpowers]

8. National Media

The national media needs to discuss this issue more. It seems the mainstream media has been doing a poor job of covering all the voting and early voting contraversies. I am not sure I have seen any mainstream media outlet discuss the fact that there has been an effort in one state, i am not sure which one, to limit early voting to only active duty military voters.

I also have not seen any mainstream media mention of the citizenship box issue going on in Michigan. So far, I have seen only or two stories on the management boards issue. Those stories were presented months ago.

[olegramps]

9. Don't hold your breath waiting to see any objective reporting by the media.

The major news sources consist of openly extreme Republican hate propaganda such as FOX and virtual silence of any criticism by the rest who are controlled by the Right wing corporations whose only concern is protecting profits at he expense of truth.

[chervilant]

11. A little off-topic, but

I found it interesting that for Missouri's Republican primary, only 20-23% of registered Republicans voted. (And, the woman for whom Sarah Palin stumped was defeated, motivating some to assert that Ms. Palin is BEYOND irrelevant...)