Posted on 11/09/2005 5:53:37 AM PST by conservativecorner
A group of election reforms backed by liberal Daddy Warbucks George Soros has crashed and burned in Ohio, leaving Democrats unable to capitalize on a year's worth of complaints that the state's 2004 presidential vote was rigged.
Voters soundly rejected the four Soros-backed proposals, which would have overhauled the way Ohio runs its elections.
The initiatives would have opened absentee balloting to all voters, lowered the cap on individual campaign contributions and put boards, instead of elected officials, in charge of drawing legislative and congressional districts and overseeing the state's elections, according to the Associated Press.
With 25 percent of the returns tallied, the AP said the absentee ballot question was trailing 61-to-39 percent; the campaign contribution cap was losing 64-to-36 percent; and redistricting and election oversight were both trailing 67-to-33 percent.
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A coalition of unions and other Democrat-leaning groups organized under the name Reform Ohio Now wanted to wrest control of elections from Republican state officeholders. Critics said the ballot measures would empower special interests and encourage fraudulent voting.
According to Ohio's Journal News, three of RON's major donors are organizations funded by Soros.
There was nothing racial in this article until you introduced it.
Your comment was uncalled for and racist.
This is a statistic that goes back decades. Don't ask me why, but the citizens of VA always pick a Governor from the opposing Party as the President. I can't explain it, but hopefully this makes you feel somewhat better about the vote. Nothing new with this although the liberal MSM will play it up for all it's worth.
This thread did not have a racial aspect until you made it so by saying:
you have the blacks screaming they can't afford a car
That's a racist remark and if by my saying so it makes me less "conservative" than you, so be it.
this may be why there is so much division among the Conservatives.
Good! I want to be "divided" from remarks like that.
I want to associate myself with your entire post.
I stand with you.
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