Posted on 09/24/2024 3:20:31 PM PDT by Libloather
RAVENNA, Ohio -- A local Ohio elections board says the county sheriff's department will not be used for election security following a social media post by the sheriff saying people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if the Democratic vice president wins the November election.
In a statement on the Portage County Democrats' Facebook page, county board of elections chair Randi Clites said members voted 3-1 Friday to remove the sheriff's department from providing security during in-person absentee voting.
Clites cited public comments indicating “perceived intimidation by our sheriff against certain voters” and the need to “make sure every voter in Portage County feels safe casting their ballot for any candidate they choose.”
A Ravenna Record-Courier story on the Akron Beacon Journal site reported that a day earlier, about 150 people crowded into a room at the Kent United Church of Christ for a meeting sponsored by the NAACP of Portage County, many expressing fear about the Sept. 13 comments.
“I believe walking into a voting location where a sheriff deputy can be seen may discourage voters from entering,” Clites said. The board is looking at using private security already in place at the administration building or having Ravenna police provide security, Clites said.
Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski posted a screenshot of a Fox News segment criticizing President Joe Biden and Harris over immigration. Likening people in the U.S. illegally to “human locusts,” he suggested recording addresses of people with Harris yard signs so when migrants need places to live “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families ... who supported their arrival!”
Local Democrats filed complaints with the Ohio secretary of state and other agencies, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio...
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The sheriff was brilliant for posting this. Let’s let all the virtue signaling lefties practice what they preach.
The elections staff don’t want any official LE there when they close the doors and start rescanning all the Harris ballots from under the table.......
Immigrants living near people = threat?
I’ll bet they didn’t even talk to the Sheriff before the vote.
Immigrants living near people = threat?
Illegal invaders, freeloaders on your tax dollars, brining crime gangs and rape.
But if you post your address, we can encourage them to move into YOUR neighborhood for your personal enrichment and learning curve.
...and how fast the NIMBY will reveal itself!
“A local Ohio elections board”
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I don’t believe that call is in the election board’s authority. It’s a public safety issue. The state legislature needs to put them in their place.
recording addresses of people with Harris yard signs so when migrants need places to live “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families ... who supported their arrival!
What a great idea.
Bad news for the election officials. The sheriff can walk right in to any public accommodation (polling place) for a look around where there is suspicion of lawbreaking.
They are ILLEGALS, not immigrants. But please post your bleeding heart address and leave a key under the mat so we can point those “folks just looking for a better life” to your extra bedroom and access to your women
Anecdotally, the most hardcore Dem house (and I believe Dem insiders or at least operatives) in our neighborhood for Dem yard signs listing entire ballots had them up on their high-traffic street since early August and now suddenly within the last week they are all gone. Signs have never been stolen, especially Dem signs, in this Fairfax County, Va neighborhood. Something odd is going on.
‘Now that we know they wont help the steal, FORGET THEM!”
I fail to understand what in person absentee voting would be. Sounds like a conflict of terms.
Turning on the lights to expose the commies at the election department!
Exactly.
Let the election board provide its own security ... equip them all with wet noodles and have social workers on standby.
The truth always hurts demoncrats and their ilk.
Bruce is the man!
Wonder what his FR moniker is...
Sounds like Kamala’s support in Northern Virginia is vanishing. Here’s wishing that is the case...
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