Posted about Ohio blocking early voting this year, got the following reply from RW'er on FB

[The Straight Story]

Block the Vote: Ohio GOP Bars Early Voting to Suppress Pro-Labor Turnout
John Nichols on November 6, 2011 - 11:45am ET

Toledo—When Mitt Romney’s dad was a candidate for president back in the 1960s, Republicans competed on the strength of their personalities and ideas.

It was the same when Newt Gingrich was an up-and-coming Republican leader in the 1980s and the early 1990s.

But no more?

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Husted claimed a hastily passed and deliberately vague new state law, which took effect just last week, prohibits early voting in the three days before the election. That’s a dramatic change from traditional practice in Ohio, where early voting on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before high-profile elections has been allowed for years—and has permitted tens of thousands of citizens to participate in the process.

The law in question, Ohio House Bill 224, was written primarily to deal with military ballots. Yet, Husted is interpreting it as a bar on early voting. State Representative Kathleen Clyde, a Democrat who represents Kent, says Hustad is essentially creating his own rules.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/164430/block-vote-ohio-gop-bars-early-voting-suppress-pro-labor-turnout

reply on facebook:

For most of our history, election day was election day. You showed up to vote on that day, and no other. If you did not show up, you did not get to vote. That notion was changed only recently, in our history, by liberal Democrats who wanted to drag out the voting process. Ostensibly, they wanted to allow more people more time to vote, claiming this was a most cherished right. What they did, though, was allow themselves more time to read exit polls and play games with fraudulent vote efforts (remember ACORN?). The notion that we should return to the system that worked for most of our history, that presented us with fewer opportunities for game playing (regardless of who is accused of playing said games) is somehow an attempt to cheat or subvert a system is twisted logic on its own. If the liberal Democrats are so worried about their precious labor folks showing up to vote, then maybe they should ... well ... ensure they actually show up to vote when the vote is held.

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Beating my head on my desk.

[villager]

1. well, it's a given rightwingers are ahistorical -- the poster's never heard of "absentee ballots?"

n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I join you in beating my head on my desk!

This fool thinks he can rewrite history?

Goddamn him.

:banghead:

[get the red out]

3. No, he doesn't have to

I'm sure some radio RW talking head re-wrote it for him and all he has to do is parrot it. It's easier that way. You have to be able to think to actually re-write.

[The Straight Story]

4. Most of what he posts is from Beck's website (nt)

[get the red out]

8. The extreme RWers always obtain their talking points

I have gotten in a habit of asking someone close to me, when they spew this kind of crap, "who had that on their radio show today?". Inevitably it was one of those mouthpieces like Rush, Beck, or Hannity. Nothing original comes from the brains of the RW pawns.

[DenverDad]

7. It's clear, when someone is still referencing ACORN,

where their "opinions" come from. Zero credibility.

[LonePirate]

5. I do not trust anyone or any party who regulates voting more than gun ownership.

[Dawgs]

6. And what was your response?

I hope you aren't planning on just ignoring it.

[veganlush]

9. And the lies about ACORN continue..

...thanks in part to the spineless dems that stipulated the lies by voting to de-fund ACORN. Many even on our side buy into the lies because they're too lazy to investegate.

[Botany]

10. I live in Ohio and have done voter protection here

1) The # of fraudulent votes that were cast because of ACORN is zero. ACORN spotted the registration errors on forms that
were turned into them and marked them as such. By law they had to turn in ALL LISTS OF PEOPLE REGISTERING TO VOTE.

2) It is impossible to vote twice in Ohio. We have Lecc triccc Ah TEA, flush toilets, and computers. If you are a registered or
an unregistered person and try to vote twice or vote illegally it will be spotted ..... All poll logs @ the precincts have voters who
have asked for a absentee ballot flagged and they must vote a provisional ballot which will not be counted if they have already voted.

3) The reason why "they" want voting on election day only is because then "they" have all kinds of tricks to screw w/ the
voting on just one day*.

4) Please give me just one documented case of people voting twice in Ohio or any fraudulent votes that were the result of ACORN
or any other democratic or liberal organization.




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Ohio 2004