Posted on 10/25/2004 1:22:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Sigh. A federal appeals court on Saturday dealt a blow to Democrat election thieves in Ohio, but now the crooks have been handed a victory ... by Republicans.
"State Republicans withdrew thousands of more than 35,000 challenges to new voter registrations because of errors in their filings apparently caused by a computer glitch," the Associated Press reported today.
Heard about all that mail sent to thousands of non-existent new "voters" that had to be returned as undeliverable? Those scandals prompted the GOP to file challenges Friday in 65 of the 88 counties.
"Over the weekend, the party withdrew about 4,700 challenges in Hamilton County because the names and addresses on the GOP list didn't match voter rolls, and about two-thirds, or 2,800, of the 4,200 challenges in Franklin County, officials said," AP reported.
"It's too late to file a new challenge under the statute the party used, John Williams, election director in Hamilton County, said Monday. There appeared to be an error in the database program used to print the challenges, so that addresses weren't matched with the correct names, he said."
One positive note: The largest batch of challenges, about 17,000 in Democrat-run Cuyahoga County, is being processed because Republicans didn't screw those up.
You're right on with that. That has been the problem all along.
We can fight them in any venue they choose with out stooping to their level.
But we have to take the gloves off and clothesline them when they get too out of hand.
Oh and nice tagline...
The DNC led effort to steal votes is a far bigger scandal of corruption than Watergate ever was. It opposes democracy.
Stalinist tactics allowed to go unchecked will spell the end of the republic.
Hey, can somebody give me some good news? I've been trying to follow the vote fraud issue ever since the 2000 election when it started getting more coverage.
Has anyone ever been busted for vote fraud in recent history?
You just have to pray the fix isn't in.
There's major internal strife in the Ohio Republican party. Bad blood.
Blackwell vs. the Taft establishment.
I'm betting they did this on purpose because Householder, who is House Speaker, wants to run for Governor in 2006, and so does Blackwell.
Blackwell can win if Ohio goes unchallenged to Bush, plus he now has name recognition on a national level.
Householder has ethics and other major problems.
This is why the Republican party is one election away from being killed off in Ohio. We're sick of it.
They raised taxes and increased spending, and Taft and both Senators came out against the ban on gay marriage in Ohio due to "it hurting our economy".
Not many gays in farming and steel, but whatever....
I agree. God has the same contempt for cowards as he does for thieves.
Yes. A guy was trying to sell his vote on EBAY, and some guy registered and was busted because he did it for coke (in Ohio).
I am not one for federal standards of any kind but, there should be picture ID required to vote.
Chances are that it is true.
It has the same chance of being true as the sun rising in the east or Tuesday following Monday.
Disgusting isn't the word for it. If Republicans have no more guts than this, maybe we deserve John F'n.
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