Posted on 10/27/2006 7:09:40 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm
COLUMBUS - A federal judge on Thursday suspended Ohio's new voter identification law for early voting already under way, saying the state's 88 counties are inconsistently applying the rule for people filling out absentee ballots.
U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley granted the temporary restraining order on behalf of labor and poverty groups who filed a lawsuit earlier in the week.
The ruling is in effect until Wednesday, when the judge will consider arguments from the same groups seeking to block application of the identification law for voters who go to the polls on Election Day.
(Excerpt) Read more at ohio.com ...
Yes, we must protect the stupid from themselves.
And since they're stupid (and hence, ipso facto Democrats), we'll let them vote multiple times, just to make sure that they eventually get their vote right!
CA....
This method was detailed at greater length by Robert Caro in the first volume of his multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson in a passage about LBJ's opponent Coke Stephenson (a great man) and the legendary but retired Texas Ranger Roy Hamer (employed by Coke Stephenson) being located on a nearby hill in Duval County with binoculars and observing the Democrat boss (aka "the Duke of Duval County") transacting this business at the polling place. It seems more than likely that LBJ was defeated in 1948 but a Truman appointed federal judge impounded the relevant ballot boxes and the ballots, as I recall, disappeared, leaving the dishonest count of them to stand electing "Landslide Lyndon" by about 100 out of thousands of stolen votes.
This is only ONE of MANY patented Demonrat election stealing schemes.
So, did the jerk-off Judge suspend the gun buyer ID law, for the same reasons? WHY NOT????
And they definitely are planning on "maximizing" their cheatabilities in my native state. Are they stocked up on their crack to distribute as well -- AGAIN?
Election Day ProceduresTo me, current means current ... within the past month. Thus the logical judge would rule that the counties with less restrictive ID requirements would have to change them. Instead the judge just tossed the whole law.Identification Requirements
Ohio voters are now required to provide proof of identity before voting. The form of identification that you may use includes your current and valid state-issued photo identification card, military identification, copy of utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check, or government document showing your name and current address. (Note: You cannot use as proof of identification a notice that the board of elections mailed to you.) If you do not have, or fail or refuse to provide, the required proof of identity, you may cast a provisional ballot.
R.C. 3505.18(A) Voters must bring identification to the polls in order to verify identity. Identification may include a current and valid photo identification, a military identification that shows the voter's name and current address, or a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document, other than a reminder or a voter registration notification, that shows the voter's name and current address. Voters who do not provide one of these documents will still be able to vote by providing the last four digits of the voter's social security number and by casting a provisional ballot. Voters who do not have any of the above forms of identification, including a social security number, will still be able to vote by signing an affirmation swearing to the voter's identity under penalty of election falsification and by casting a provisional ballot. (The above requirement is effective June 1, 2006)
However, when you read the whole law you realize that you don't really need and ID at all, you just have to cast a provisional ballot and sign something that says you "really, really, really promise that you're who you claim to be". This law was very weak, but it was still too strong for the Dems to allow to stand.
I would say not imaginary -but- looking in the wrong direction.. -or- a distraction from the real problem(s)..
A diversion... Diversions work politically for both parties..
news flash!!!
democrats win in a sweep of both houses!!!
of 2 million eligible voters in ohio, 21 million go for democrat candidates.
You have eloquently grasped a BIG part of the immigration issue. The rest is that the immigrants are coming here for the perfectly Republican ambition of earning a real living to support their families and NOT so that son Pablo can "marry" James McGreevey in New Jersey or Massachusetts or so that daughter Maria can abort their grandchildren, as in both cases the Demonrats would prefer. So far, 12 million Mexicans are trying to cover the job obligations that might have been covered by for 47 million "Roe vs. Wade" slaughtered American babies.
Darn! Wish there was something that could be done to prevent this election from being stolen by the DemocRATS!
All the more reason that voters who don't want to see Ohio sink further into the abyss get out and vote to overcome any and all vote fraud that the moonbats are planning.
The judge may be right on the merits, but what justifies doing this as the election is underway?
Because it unfairly punishes those who want to cheat... because it discriminates against the dead... where is your heart? -ROLF :))
Ooops .. silly me :0)
Without Voter Fraud on a MASSIVE SCALE, Democrats have absolutely no hope of winning ANYTHING these days...
Indiana and Arizona will end up being the test cases. When Democrats LOSE in Areas they previously thought were secure because of it (Julia Carson), they are going to be screaming to the high heavens. Count on it....
Should the courts suspend a law because the counties are inconsistently applying them, or should they suspend a law because the counties have inconsistent laws?
I look to the Bush v. Gore case in 2000. The US Supreme Court ruled against Gore because there were no state-wide standards, which is why there was inconsistent application of counting chads. That's not the same thing as having standards, but people aren't following them. In the former case, you suspend the law until state-wide standards are established; in the latter case, you offer training until you are in compliance.
There will always be a certain amount of inconsistency in anything one does due to turnover, does this mean that we suspend everything?
-PJ
And those "job obligations" do not consist of "jobs Americans do not want to do" as the oft-repeated mantra by President Bush would have us lulled into believing. Once the illegals (or legals) are here, they will aspire to go after the American dream with a vengeance. You will see (and already do) Mexican immigrants owning businesses and having good-paying jobs outside the agricultural sphere because they work harder than the average U.S. worker born and raised here. The fact is, there have not been enough native-born Americans to prop up our economy, so the government has opened the floodgates to Mexicans. And, the census statistics bear that out. The U.S. just hit 300 million in population, which represents a 100 million increase in just a couple of decades. 85 percent of that 100 million was not due to new births, but to immigration.
I have a right to vote. I have a right for my vote to count. If voter fraud is allowed, my rights as a voter are being violated.
The guy that wrote the book "Flowers for Algernon" was Daniel Keyes. He was also my teacher for a fiction writing class I took in college. He pissed me of totally at the time, but in hindsight his straight shooting helped me to improve my writing like never before. I would imagine it would be like playing football for Bear Bryant. You might curse and fear him while under his wing........But down the road, you realize how much he really helped you to recognize your weaknesses and improve and never quit.
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