Posted on 10/25/2004 6:05:16 AM PDT by conservativecorner
What you're looking at here is the ballot from Cayahoga County, Ohio. Go ahead! Try to vote for Bush. If you follow the arrow you will punch Number 14. But if you read the ballot, you're supposed to punch Number 4.
What I don't get about this ballot (besides the obvious number irregularity)...why is Bush/Cheney listed last????
Any Freepers there should haul their ballots back to the voting officials and complain loudly enough for nearby lawyers to hear it. Let's hope the advance publicity spurs officials to do something.
This is unbelievable.....it looks photoshopped. Notice the 1 missing in front of the 4 & 2. I'm not an expert, but this photo looks doctored.
This is the Democrats trying to make their own Palm Beach Ballot.
From Newsmax.com:
Dems Register al-Qaida Terrorists in Ohio Vote Drive
Democratic Party activist groups in Ohio have registered at least two known terrorists involved in a plot to blow up a shopping center in a bid to get out the vote for John Kerry.
Nuradin Abdi - a Somali immigrant and admitted al-Qaida member who was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus Mall - was registered to vote by the civil rights group ACORN, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
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ACORN has spearheaded an aggressive Democratic Party vote drive in the battleground states.
Iyman Faris, another new Ohio voter added to the rolls by Democrats, is currently serving a 20-year jail sentence for his role in surveilling potential al-Qaida targets - including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Dispatch said.
According to the Ohio News Now TV network, Abdi's name was added to the rolls by ACORN employee Kevin Eugene Dooley, as part of the group's Project Vote operation.
Dooley was indicted earlier this year on two felony election offenses - false election registration and submitting false election signatures to the Ohio Board of Elections.
"As far as board of elections is concerned, Abdi is a registered voter," Ohio board of elections director Matt Damschroeder told ONN.
Only after Abdi's case was exposed did Ohio officials strike his name from the voting rolls, due to his status as an illegal alien.
Faris became a naturalized citizen in 1999 but is not eligible to vote because he's an incarcerated felon.
Isn't this the same sort of thing they complained about in Florida in 2000? Need to take it to court and force them to change because looking at that ballot a dummy can't miss getting a vote for Kerry because his number is across from the name. The others aren't even close. I'm trying to figure what kind of order they used. I'd say it's another reason why they need to standardize voting procedures. Ballots like these are a disgrace.
My son got one similar to this one . If you read the instruction packet that comes with it clearly states to punch the correponsing number as the 2 cards are separate.
A #2 punch would go for Bush, #6 would go for Kerry ,they do not line up as shown in the picture
It's photoshopped, I think.
NY Times? Hello NY Times? NY Times where are you?
No its not photoshopped that is the ballot but it is 2 separate cards
oopss make that #4 would go for Bush
In an earlier thread, I believe the elections official resigned. It was from this morning somewhere.
YOu have a real good point. Anybody out there have access to an actual Cuyahoga County ballot for comparison?
I think you're right because I don't think they'd put Bush/Cheny that far down on the list...Also, under unknowns? I don't think so...Someone is playing games.
Oh, how I want this to be an internet hoax. Problem is, I have already read this.
Nobody resigns from an elections job before an election, unless the poop's about to hit the propeller.
I'll be working in Cuyahoga County next week - walking neighborhoods and shuttling voters. I'll let the lawyers fight ballot design.
I don't know how things work in Ohio, but here in Missouri, whwen you go into the polling place, you slide your ballot in a sleeve that the butterfuly ballot opens on top of. Slot '4' when the ballot is in the sleeve may well be slot '14' on the actual ballot.
THANK YOU! I can't walk a neighborhood in Ohio, but I have sent a check to the RNC to support you.
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