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ClevelandOhio GOP Secretary of State Jon Husted has become an infamous figure for aggressively limiting early voting hours and opportunities to cast and count a ballot in the Buckeye State.
Once again Husted is playing the voter suppression card, this time at the eleventh hour, in a controversial new directive concerning provisional ballots. In an order to election officials on Friday night, Husted shifted the burden of correctly filling out a provisional ballot from the poll worker to the voter, specifically pertaining to the recording of a voters form of ID, which was previously the poll workers responsibility. Any provisional ballot with incorrect information will not be counted, Husted maintains. This seemingly innocuous change has the potential to impact the counting of thousands of votes in Ohio and could swing the election in this closely contested battleground.
Our secretary of state has created a situation, here in Ohio, where he will invalidate thousands and thousands of peoples votes, Brian Rothenberg, executive director of ProgessOhio, said during a press conference at the board of elections in Cuyahoga County yesterday in downtown Cleveland. Added State Senator Nina Turner: SoS used to stand for secretary of state. But under the leadership of Jon Husted, SoS stands for secretary of suppression.?
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The number of discarded provisional ballots could rise significantly due to Husteds directive. Its also very likely that more provisional ballots will be cast in 2012 than in 2008, thanks to a wave of new voting restrictions in Ohio and nationwide. The Associated Press reported that 31 percent of the 2.1 provisional ballots cast nationwide in 2008 were not counted, and called provisional ballots the hanging chads of 2012."
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/171011/eleventh-hour-gop-voter-suppression-could-swing-ohio
This article is just one reason I worry that we'll end up with Romney in the White House. Does Nate Silver take this kind of evil shit into consideration? Of course not.
elleng
(131,106 posts)for truth and the American Way, We the People won't let their crap prevail. imo
DemocracyInaction
(2,506 posts)Maybe this is wacko but I wonder: During Bush/Gore neither of them were the then sitting president. They basically just had dirty operatives running around This would be tampering with a sitting president who has the DOJ at his disposal. I wonder if that would make a lot of difference in that facing a federal offense would scare anybody.
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)We have attorneys everywhere-especially States like ohio. I trust that this type of behavior was anticipated and planned for.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Let it be so.. I wonder who can out rank a state's Secretary of State? I wonder if they can bring their foot down, and say, enough is enough! Its time to have a fair election!
spanone
(135,873 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)and Debbie Downers will be Debbie Downers.
cali
(114,904 posts)are far more educated than the chirpy we'll win because... well because we will, crowd
edhopper
(33,615 posts)after Ohio was stolen in 2004, is to be an ostrich in the sand.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Any shenanigans in Ohio will not be tolerated. My sources within the campaign have confirmed that lawyers, observers and poll watchers are EVERYWHERE, especially in Democratic areas of Ohio.
I'm not worried whatsoever about Ohio. Not one bit.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)KaryninMiami
(3,073 posts)It needs to get out into mainstream media- people need to GET THIS- it is a big deal. Most people have absolutly no idea this is going on and has been before. From the Nation it can get to Msnbc and BBC and so on.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)If the info is filled out incorrectly, the ballot will be thrown out, correct? So how are the people counting the votes going to know who filled out the info?
The way I'm reading this, incorrect info = discarded ballot...is that incorrect?
global1
(25,270 posts)like that.
What does this say about us?