Ohio's Election Stolen Again?

[NicholeW.]

Ohio's Election Stolen Again? State May Face 600K Voter Purge in Coming Weeks
Advancement Project and Project Vote. Posted August 13, 2008.

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/94977/

Columbus, Ohio August 13, 2008 -- Nearly 600,000 eligible Ohio voters may be dropped from the voter rolls if Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner doesn't act to protect these voters, according to findings based on publicly available information discovered by Advancement Project and Project Vote.

These voters -- disproportionately voters of color and young voters -- are subject to being removed from Ohio's voter registration rolls without notice or a hearing because of the state's vague regulations on vote caging, a process that enables representatives of one political party to challenge the voter registration credentials of voters at polling places on Election Day.

[tekla]

There is a way around this kind of tom foolery.  The House has to vote to certify the vote in each and every state.  Might be time to veto one.  Well, they should have kicked Florida in 2000, and Ohio in 2004.

[NicholeW.]

It'll never happen if you ask me. No way enough members are gonna risk their two years away re-elections; and the spin would be overwhelming if they ever did, at least the way things work now.

I'm sure they figure better to have it done in the courts and leave the state boards of elections to answer the fallout. I don't think "what's right" often enters into the legislative debate schedule.

Nichole

[tekla]

if ever

[NicholeW.]

If ever. *nod*

N~

[mickie88]

I'm sure they figure better to have it done in the courts and leave the state boards of elections to answer the fallout. I don't think "what's right" often enters into the legislative debate schedule.

Nichole

no, dear surely not in Ohio, that would make too much "sense". Rarely does anyone in this state ever elected have any sense.


Warrior Princess Mickie