GOPs setting up some election fraud to entrap and blame Dems? Looks like it. Ohio news:

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I've been noticing other stories, too, in battleground states, where the Republicans are making sure there are high profile news stories attaching the idea of election fraud to Democratic election officials and Dem organizations in those states.

Most of us are fully aware that there is nothing the Republicans do better (or more often) than PROJECT THEIR SINS onto unsuspecting Democrats. They divert attention from their own area of crimes while they feign outrage towards the Dems.



GOP criticizes advisory of Ohio elections chief


Source: AP

Republicans are attacking Ohio's top elections official after the Democrat told counties that they aren't required to allow third-party election observers at absentee ballot drop-off sites.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner says in a Tuesday advisory that state law provides for such observers when absentee ballots are processed and counted, but not when they are cast.

Republican National Committee co-chair Jo Ann Davidson calls the advisory an "attempt to encourage both parties to turn a blind eye (to fraud)." Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett says it raises serious doubts about the integrity of elections.

Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega points out that absentee ballots are processed by bipartisan teams and says Brunner has sought to promote clear and consistent statewide elections standards.
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http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=828824&c=y

[Botany]

1. Brunner is not going to put up w/ any crap

BTW Bennett the man who as head of the Cuyahoga County BOE helped
fix the 2004 election has the balls to say this;

Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett says it raises serious doubts about the integrity of elections.

Brunner fired his ass and told him he could have an open hearing about what he did
w/ the Cuyahoga County BOE .... Bennett slunk away like a beaten dog

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2. Projection - It's the Republican Way.

Unfortunately, they have great control over some major newspapers and can manage the narrative they want - especially in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.

They have obviously chosen Brunner as a target for that projection, and I predict the Ohio news organizations will help them by keeping her name in the same sentence with 'election fraud' for all the many news consumers who hear and read only the headlines.

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3. btw, B...what Ohio newspaper is your hometown read?

And do you have any type of acquaintance with any reporter there?

[Botany]

6. The Columbus Dispatch

Bad as it gets .... they and the GOP and their puppets in many county BOEs have
screamed like stuck pigs about Brunner and her way of doing things.

They want to keep the bad machines to "save the taxpayer's money."

They are upset over Brunner's oversight of the vote ... she wants it clean, open
and verifiable.

Her winning of the JFK Profile's in Courage was not a good thing.

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7. IMO, the Toledo Blade is the closest newspaper Ohio has to commited journalism.

Cleveland PD and Cinn. Enquirer have long been GOP allies.

[Life Long Dem]

4. Do they want someone at your home when you fill out the absentee ballot as well?

The rule plainly states the ballots are counted with an observer.

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5. I think the actual purpose of the feigned outrage is to establish a link in public's mind

a link that boils down to a shorthand that looks like this: Democratic official = election fraud.

They don't really care what the specific issue is, as long as they can establish a narrative that links the Dem party to election fraud in the broadcast and print media, and doing it BEFORE election day. Divert and distract.

[AtomicKitten]

8. McBush sues Ohio's SOS.

McCain Camp Sues Ohio Secretary of State

22 Sep 2008 04:57 pm

Debates about election integrity usually pit Democrats worried about access against Republicans worried about fraud. In Ohio, a flashpoint has partisans taking the opposite sides: Republicans accuse the Democratic secretary of state of trying to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters.

Today, lawyers for the McCain campaign sued the Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, allegeding that she's unlawfully rejecting absentee ballot requests. In Hamilton County, as many as a third of all requests were deemed invalid, sending the campaign scrambling to recontact voters.

Why?

Not because the forms lacked the requisite signatures and information. It's because the forms, printed by the McCain campaign, had something extra -- a box that asked voters to verify that " I am a qualified elector and would like to receive an Absentee Ballot for the November 4, 2008 General Election."

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/mccain_camp_sues_ohio_secretar.php

[Overseas]

9. We can expect them to pretend Dems are cheating to cover

their own shenanigans.

Or if Obama gets the landslide he deserves, they may pretend Democrats were manipulating the results, even though we do not have to. We have ten million more registered voters than Republicans, I believe. (We won in 2000, 2004 and a much larger majority in 2006 than we were granted. See the great documentaries and books on the subject, and www.velvetrevolution.us.)

Let us not forget the "spontaneous" Brooks Brothers' riot in Florida 2000, where REPUBLICAN STAFFERS pretended to be citizens demanding that the recount be stopped. They were quite intense and demanding and shouting and storming the government offices. Tey were paid Republican staffers and we have the photos to prove that. That fake angry mob was really hyper dramatic.

Republicans have used multiple techniques to steal votes and suppress Democratic turnout, as clearly documented in Stealing America: Vote by Vote www.stealingamericathemovie.com , which also has historical comparisons of current and past shenanigans.

Don't forget that Republicans in Ohio sent challengers to polling places in Democratic precincts to slow down the voting process. They were technically allowed to challenge voters to be sure they were legally registered, so they sent challengers to Democratic areas only, and that's one of the big reasons the lines were snaking around the block.

Well, that and they had a Republican Secretary of STate who golly gee somehow undercounted and sent too few voting machines to Democratic precincts. Republican areas breezed through voting. Dem areas had lines for hours and hours.

I really admire the voters who stood in line for hours.

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10. That's exactly how they operate. And...a 'DUer' thinks posting election fraud article is disruptive

but doesn't say so publicly.....I hope the administrators can see who is doing the rating.

Interesting...