Posted on 11/27/2004 10:27:59 AM PST by Bonaventure
A national nonpartisan voters' rights group has asked an Ohio court to reinstate nearly 8,000 provisional ballots ruled invalid in Cuyahoga County.
The People for the American Way Foundation filed suit Friday in the 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals in Cleveland against Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
Last month, a federal appeals court ruled that Blackwell was correct in directing poll workers not to count provisional ballots cast outside voters' home precincts. That was only one of a flurry of conflicting court decisions at the federal and state levels.
Cuyahoga had 24,472 provisional ballots cast in the Nov. 2 election, and 8,099 - fully a third - were invalidated. That was the largest single body of controversial ballots in any of Ohio's 88 counties.
The suit is a mandamus action, which asks a court to compel a public official to perform a duty.
The action charges that poll workers and precinct judges "were deeply confused" about how to handle the provisional ballots and that Blackwell failed to provide clear instructions.
People for the American Way wants the court to order Blackwell and the county elections board to check electronic voter-registration rolls against paper registration records, to notify each voter who cast an invalidated ballot why it was rejected, and to give that person a way to contest the invalidation.
The suit also wants ballots counted if voters cast them in the wrong places and officials failed to send them to the right polling places.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
This suit is ridiculous. The underlying theory appears to be that it is impossible to cast an invalid absentee ballot -- or, at least, it is impossible to cast an invalid absentee ballot in Cuyahoga County. None of these "nonpartisan" groups seem to be too worked up about invalid absentee ballots in Bush counties.
-Eric
national nonpartisan voters' rights group has asked an Ohio court to reinstate nearly 8,000 provisional ballots ruled invalid in Cuyahoga County.
The People for the American Way Foundation filed suit Friday in the 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals in Cleveland against Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
I hope the judge looks at this group's Lawyer, says "You are complete idiots. Quit wasting my time and the court's resources with this nonsense. Case dismissed"
Also, the statement, "The suit also wants ballots counted if voters cast them in the wrong places and officials failed to send them to the right polling places."
Why can't this group just come out and say, "We will sue until we find a way to give the state of Ohio to Kerry!"
If this group is so "nonpartisan" they should be challenging results in Pennsylvania, which Kerry won by about the same margin as Bush won Ohio. Leave it to the typically liberal press to inject the word "nonpartisan" into the description of People for the American Way when everyone knows that this is nothing but a Democratic front group.
This article obviously is biased. People for the American Way is leftist. Isn't Ken Blackwell a Republican?
Blackwell is a Republican and also a prominent African-American politician. Some observers think he will be the next governor of Ohio.
That's what I thought. Man, I thought he was going be like the next Catherine Harris of Florida. He should be governor of Ohio. What is his political leanings?
He will. Unless the Ohio Republican Establishment can beat him in the primary.
He is a Conservative Republican.
He was the former Chariman of the Forbes 2000 campaign.
All these bozos are going after Blackwell the same way they went after Kathleen Harris. Is this what a party in decline looks like?
Cool. I like to see JC Watts as preisdent and Ken Blackwell as vice president in 2008.
I know. Catherine Harris went through it and now Ken Blackwell. The Dems are in decline. Zell Miller said it well, a national party no more. It left him, he did not leave the Democrats.
As much as I like Watts, the Demoncrats would smear him worse than Clarence Thomas for his extracurricular activities. I'd prefer to see a Condi Rice/Ken Blackwell ticket.
Based on the federal court's decision, the judge should dismiss the case, assess all attorney fees and costs against the leftists who brought it, sanction their attorney for filing it, and refer the attorney to the state bar for disciplinary proceedings.
Why would JC Watts get smeared by the Dems?
Board of Directors - David E. Altschul – Chair James A. Autry
Directors
Alec Baldwin
Dr. Arthur Bellinzoni
Marilyn Bergman
Lara Bergthold
Mary Frances Berry
Hon. John H. Buchanan, Jr.
Father Robert Drinan
Maria Echaveste
Michael Gartner
James Hormel
Dolores Huerta
Michael B. Keegan
Howard Klein
Norman Lear
Rev. Timothy McDonald
Dr. Jack Melamed
Ralph G. Neas
John Payton
Anthony T. Podesta
David S. Rose
Joshua Sapan
Carole Shields
Clyde Shorey
Margery Tabankin
Reg Weaver
Geraldine Day Zurn
The Demoncrats have no shame and truth is irrelevant.
"A national nonpartisan voters' rights group ...
The People for the American Way Foundation"
No, the media isn't biased. No way. Uh-huh.
Drinan is a liberation (marxist) theologist. He is the one that cut the deal with Kerry in order to get the congressional seat. Drinan is currently a full-time professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He typifies the kind of Catholics that are welcome at the university.
and voting somewhere near where they resided at the time, or received one measly absentee ballot mailed to an actual address where someone resided, perhaps even the named, live voter. It all adds up to Suppression of the Minority Vote!
After the many hundreds of years of oppression suffered at the cruel hands of white men, surely these FPMG people should be allowed to make up for the missed votes of all those lost generations by casting as many ballots as possible for the Democrat Party and Democrat candidate of their choice.
But, after re-reading your barbed sally, I must sadly conclude that you are one of those pettifogging would-be tyrants who, true fascist to the core, also insists on voters being alive at some point close to the election.
Do you not realize that if a Republican wins an election, any election for any position, the Emancipation Proclamation will be repealed and that many hundreds of women and children will immediately starve, sicken, and die? How can someone as insensitive as yourself, sir, possibly sleep at night?
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