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Re: IF REPUBLICAN STANDARDS IN OHIKO WERE APPLIED NATIONWIDE
Forgot to mention below - we already
are seeing chaos. It's the flood of obviously fraudulent registrations submitted by ACORN.
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WriterofLight
on October 18, 2008 at 8:55 PM
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Re: IF REPUBLICAN STANDARDS IN OHIKO WERE APPLIED NATIONWIDE
Thanks for your work, Xenox, and glad to see you responding again! (You do realize that you're a short ways up the river from Rush Limbaugh's home town, don't you?)
Of course, voters have the right to vote. And the things you cite are absolutely not to disqualify someone. Same for clerical errors, transposed numbers and the like. I would say that the work you do to resolve them is thankless, but I just thanked you for it - as I do the poll workers when I vote.
(Here's another disenfrachiser that's turned up locally: Absentee ballots that were prefolded incorrectly so as to hide the registration stub from view when it's inserted in the envelope.)
The problem is, who has the right to be a voter? Felons? No. The deceased? No. One person with multiple registrations, voting more than once because of being registered more than once? No. People registered under obviously fictitious names? No.
All four examples I cited are turning up in Acorn registrations in multiple states. The suit was brought to force our Secretary of State to do what you are doing and correct the errors and name changes, and to weed out the frauds.
As I wrote: The disenfranchised are not the voters whose erroneous registrations are corrected. They are the leigitimate voters whose votes are countered by frauds.
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WriterofLight
on October 18, 2008 at 8:54 PM
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IF REPUBLICAN STANDARDS IN OHIKO WERE APPLIED NATIONWIDE
there would be chaos.
being an election official in St. Louis, I see probably a dozen discrepancies in just the one polling place I work. I would then assume that, throughout the State of Missouri, there must be tens of thousands of such discrepancies.
These do not disenfranchise the voter; neither does this constitute fraud, as you seem to be implying in Ohio. These happen all the time. WE CANNOT UNDER LAW TURN THESE VOTERS AWAY -- VOTERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE -- PERIOD. We note the differences and fill out forms if necessary to rectify. Things like a middle initial versus a full middle name are non-entities. And there are others. Woman who have married still have their madenname on their drivers licenses -- or have their married name -- and the name on the tally sheet is different -- we don't consider this fraud -- we don't turn the voter away -- we have forms to fill out that corrects the problem.
Conservatives and Republicans are trying to make fraud out of something that is commonplace and has been commonplace for at least decades.
Do you wonder why I vote Democratic? What you have said here is one reason.
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Xeno-x
on October 18, 2008 at 6:38 AM
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