Still angry, Kerry supporters nationwide try to change Ohio elections

[sabra]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/13072843.htm

Still angry, Kerry supporters nationwide try to change Ohio elections

Associated Press


COLUMBUS, Ohio - Still angry a year later, John Kerry supporters across the country are donating money to an effort to overhaul elections in the state they blame for costing them the White House.

A New Mexico retiree who became incensed after reading last fall about pre-election directives by Ohio's secretary of state gave $100. A substance-abuse counselor in Maine who suspects Ohio-made electronic voting machines were tampered with to give President Bush the victory contributed $25.

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The four constitutional amendments on Tuesday's ballot in Republican-dominated Ohio would expand voting by mail, limit campaign contributions and create bipartisan boards to draw districts and oversee elections - jobs now done by politicians. The amendments were proposed by Democratic-leaning groups.

Reform Ohio Now, a coalition of union and citizens groups that backs the amendments, has raised $2 million overall in donations and services, including nearly 3,300 contributions of $500 or less from all 50 states, totaling $120,000. A third of its money, $629,750, came from People for the American Way in Washington.

[rodeodance]

1. whow--and AP story about this.

[sabra]

2. I wish today was 11/3/04, even Diebold wouldn't be able to

get * out of this hole :-(

[kwolf68]

3. HAHAHAHA

limit campaign contributions and create bipartisan boards to draw districts and oversee elections


Buwhahahaha...Damn utopian lefties..../sarcasm

[second edition]

4. A repub radio station in my area yesterday was talking about this.

The host was saying it is Soros backed, and a ploy to alter districting and eliminate representation and fairness in voting. Can you believe this crap coming from a repub. Anyway they were really making a push to have it voted down. I'm glad it made the AP.

[JudyM]

5. They can never take what they dish out. n/t

[IndianaGreen]

6. If you throw away enough Kerry votes and keep Kerry voters

from the polls, you guarantee that Bush will "carry" Ohio.

Jimmy Carter said last night on Larry King that Gore won in 2000 and that Kerry probably won Ohio.

[meganmonkey]

7. WTF does this have to do with Kerry? Why must they frame it this way?

This should not be a partisan issue, in fact the proposals are fundamentally NONpartisan.

How ridiculous.

*shakeshead*