Ohio GOP sues to block early voting

[DogPoundPup]

Source: examiner.com

Ohio Republicans on Friday challenged the state's top elections official, a Democrat, with allegations of power abuse and filed a lawsuit over a separate calendar glitch. Democrats countered that Republicans were trying to suppress the vote.

Republican Sen. John McCain's campaign helped thousands of people request absentee ballots, but Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said many of them forgot to check a box attesting they were registered voters. Republicans protested, claiming Brunner was using her office to benefit her Democratic Party.

On Friday, Brunner offered a fix to the McCain-enlisted voters: Go on the Internet, print a form and mail it back.

"If they would have simply left the check-box off, they would have avoided all these problems and we wouldn't be here today," Brunner said.

Ohio Republicans and McCain's top campaign official in the state objected.

"There is no reason to reject a form that includes all necessary legal requirements," said Jon Seaton, McCain's top aide in the region. "Our position has not changed - qualified electors who request an absentee ballot should not be disenfranchised."

Ohio Republican Chairman Bob Bennett said Brunner was adding "another layer of bureaucracy to complicate the process even more" with the online handling.

Read more: http://www.examiner.com/a-1584332~Ohio_GOP_sues_to_block_early_voting.html

[Skink]

1. Ohio early voting is the republicans worst nightmare.

Vote at your liesure. Why spned all day in line.

[underpants]

2. Plus vote counts might leak out

real or imagined. The last thing they want to see in this groupthink world which explains why you haven't seen a single image and hardly a mention of Barack's Mile High speech

[Doremus]

3. The asshats printed their own --wrong-- version of the form and are blaming Dems for it.

How does it feel to be on the outside looking in, pukes?

Can't even print a simple form without mucking it up?

Too stupid to vote?


Whew, that felt good. :rofl:



Next up: Repukes, too stupid to write a law without a gaping loophole allowing instant voter registration and voting, sue in court. Wait for it.

[skepticscott]

9. Can't understand why Obama isn't all over this yet

John McCain wants to run the whole country and his campaign (that employs a boatload of election law experts) can't even get a simple form on a matter as important as voter registration right? This is either an example of outright and deliberate election fraud or gross incompetence...which is it, Senator McCain??

[bettyellen]

14. hadn;t they mailed them to people on Obama's donor list. not an accident.

at least it wan;t in other states when they sent out bogus mailers.

[Stargleamer]

4. The hypocrisy of Republicans when it comes to voter. . .

disenfranchisement is just mind-boggling.

[stevietheman]

5. Where were these whiners when their criminal was running the show? n/t

n/t

[bluesmail]

6. Go ahead, steal the votes. Don't win on your qualifications...

Head Hurts.

[Doctor_J]

7. Obama should be making a campaign issue of voter suppression

Say, out loud, that his AG will prosecute every fucking one of these people for civil rights violations.

[4lbs]

8. The GOP is the party that DOESN'T want every vote counted...

because they know that if it happened, they would lose the vast majority of the time.

The national voter registration is more than 50% Democratic, with some figures I've read putting it at 53% Democratic to 43% Republican and 4% "Other".

If everyone voted and had their vote counted, then the GOP would pretty much lose most of the close races.

[Alcibiades]

11. Some of those Democrats vote Republican for president

That's the only way we lose. White southerners, mainly. Many are actually DINOs, who are only registered Democrats because they live in a city dominated by Democrats, and they want to be democrats so they can cast a vote in the primary for the more conservative Democrat.

I'll be knocking on their doors tomorrow.

[Fuzz]

10. Claim they are all veterans votes

That should work.

[Up2Late]

12. Gee, they couldn't just do like we had to do in 2004, i.e. Go to the Polls on Election Day...

...and stand in LINE for 3 to 12 HOURS!?!:banghead:

Btw, in 2004, I went to the poles for EARLY VOTING on Thursday, October 28, 2004 and STILL had to wait 3 1/2 HOURS!!! IN THE RAIN!!!

So to all the stupid GOP voters who might have to do the same to maybe "have their vote counted!" I have these words for them...

BOO-F*CKING-HOO!!!

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[Arkana]

13. Ohio Republicans don't even have a CRUTCH to stand on

when it comes to electoral incompetence. They managed to help Ohio join Florida as the two most electorally retarded states in the Union.

[cui bono]

15. If you don't like the solution

you shouldn't have fucked it up in the first place. Asshats.

[MissWaverly]

16. didn't Blackwell throw out requests due to the paper weight

seems that I remember him doing that, then I remember him discarding over 90,000 ballots in the election.

[crickets]

17. Yes indeedy.

GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Ken Blackwell - November 6, 2004
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/11/edi04083.html

Most people know their Secretary of State because he's the guy or woman whose name appears on their driver's license. But most Ohioans got to know Ken Blackwell because he was the one doing everything possible to stop everyone but Republicans from voting. The guy even tried to refuse any voter registration card that wasn't printed on 80 pound weight paper, that is, until Internet-savvy Democrats publicized it enough to make him retract his ridiculous requirement.


Articles of Impeachment, Article 29
CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965
http://impeachment.kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=44

H. Willfully issuing unclear and conflicting rules regarding the methods and manner of becoming a legally registered voter in the State of Ohio, and willfully issuing unclear and unnecessary edicts regarding the weight of paper registration forms legally acceptable to the State of Ohio, thereby creating confusion for both voters and voting officials and thus impeding the right of an unknown number of United States citizens to register and vote.

I. Ohio Secretary of State John Kenneth Blackwell directed through Advisory 2004-31 that voter registration forms, which were greatest in urban minority areas, should not be accepted and should be returned unless submitted on 80 bond paper weight. Blackwell's own office was found to be using 60 bond paper weight.

There's more listed about Ohio and Blackwell--this is just the stuff about paper weight. It boggles the mind how low Repubs will stoop to subvert the vote.

[MissWaverly]

19. it's amazing, they create the problem, then whine

the democrats jump through hoops to comply with every regulation and still have their vote thrown out, the Republicans create their own form and then claim bias when it's rejected.

[budkin]

18. Sorry pukes... Dems control Ohio this year!