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Will a shocking new GOP court victory and Karl Rove's attack on Ohio 2006 doom the Democrats?
Columbus(OH) Free Press ^ | October 30, 2006 | Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Posted on 10/30/2006 5:05:36 PM PST by Dane

COLUMBUS---With a major GOP federal court victory, the Ohio 2006 election has descended into the calculated chaos that has become the trademark of a Karl Rove election theft, and that could help keep the Congress in Republican hands nationwide.

Through a complex series of legal maneuvers, and now a shocking new decision from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the GOP has thrown Ohio's entire process of voting and vote counting into serious disarray. The mess is perfectly designed to suppress voter turnout, make election monitoring and a recount impossible, and allow the Republican Party to emerge with a victory despite overwhelming evidence the electorate wants exactly the opposite.

The disaster in Ohio began immediately after the theft of the presidential election here in 2004. Though the majority of Ohioans are registered Democrats, the gerrymandered state legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. Soon after John Kerry conceded, it passed House Bill 3, a draconian assault on voter registration drives, voting rights and the ability to secure reliable recounts of federal-level elections.

In brief, HB3 stacked a virtually impossible set of requirements onto the voter registration process. As elsewhere nationwide, voting has traditionally involved citizens coming to the polls and signing a poll book. Upon a signature check from a poll worker, a ballot has been given. A similar process has been in effect for absentee ballots. There is no recent evidence this method has encouraged significant voter fraud.

But the GOP's HB3 has imposed a series of draconian requirements for voter ID, including the demand for certain documents very difficult to obtain by many poor, homeless, elderly or other largely Democratic demographic groups.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2006; bwaaaahahaha; elections; paranoids; pelosi; rove
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The lefty libs are starting to lose it. It's all a Rovian plot as their faux Queen, nancy pelosi, is rejected by the great unwashed.

November 7th, is going to be a good day for conservatives, and all on FR can make it better to make sure that you go out and vote on November 7th.

OH and BTW, tell your liberal co-workers to vote on November 8th, they being graduates of the NEA public school system, can't differentiate the difference in dates. :)

1 posted on 10/30/2006 5:05:37 PM PST by Dane
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To: Dane

Doesn't this deserve a (Chunky Barf Alert)?


2 posted on 10/30/2006 5:08:58 PM PST by digger48
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To: Dane
Somebody should call for the WHAAAAAAmbulance.
3 posted on 10/30/2006 5:09:03 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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"Though the majority of Ohioans are registered Democrats"

Ah yes, including Mary Poppins, Michael Jackson, etc., etc., which were PROVEN to be submitted fraudulently by Democrat operatives? Does this also include the live and DEAD Democrat voters??????


4 posted on 10/30/2006 5:09:10 PM PST by traditional1
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To: Dane

This reads like satire to me.

It is...right?


5 posted on 10/30/2006 5:09:30 PM PST by Disambiguator (If the Democrats were a stock, I would short them.)
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To: Dane

If the GOP hangs on to the house you're going to hear screams from the left that'll make 2000 seem mild by comparison.


6 posted on 10/30/2006 5:10:09 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: Dane

Run for the hills! The sky is falling! The aliens have landed! Rove is stealing the election! We're all doomed! </liberal hysteria>


7 posted on 10/30/2006 5:10:28 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Dane

Rove Offers Pelosi Amnesty After Elections
by Scott Ott

(2006-10-30) — Presidential adviser Karl Rove, the so-called ‘architect’ of Republican electoral victories in 2002 and 2004, today offered to allow Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, to keep her House minority leader post after the Republican triumph at the polls next week.

Mr. Rove has mystified pollsters and pundits in recent days with his confident statements that Democrats will not take back the Congress, despite their virtually unstoppable momentum in the New York Times and on CNN.

“I’m going to grant Nancy Pelosi amnesty,” Mr. Rove said, “despite what she and her followers have said during this campaign. I am Rove, the great and powerful, but the beneficent Rove has every intention of granting her forthcoming request to remain minority leader.”


8 posted on 10/30/2006 5:10:29 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Dane

Resistance is futile. We are the blog. You will be assimilated.


9 posted on 10/30/2006 5:11:20 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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Can someone post that pic of the two, freaky-looking Libs protesting the 2004 Ohio results? The gal is crying, and the guy is wearing an orange jumpsuit.

It is one of my favorites.

10 posted on 10/30/2006 5:11:44 PM PST by SIDENET (Is it too early for flapjacks?)
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Karl Rove should sue these guys and make them prove he has ever engineered the theft of an election.
11 posted on 10/30/2006 5:13:03 PM PST by msnimje (You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
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I only wish Karl Rove was the nearly omniscient, James Bond-like mastermind the left seems to think he is. I must confess, too, that I like the adjective 'Rovian', although not for the same reasons as the opposition--to me, it's sort of like the word 'Machiavellian', only with positive connotations.

And yeah, I guess showing a state ID card at the polls is a draconian measure...for the dead.
12 posted on 10/30/2006 5:13:29 PM PST by Rembrandt_fan
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To: Dane

Even if the dems "win" this election, they are doomed. Once their facade of centrist is peeled away after the election, they will never win another.


13 posted on 10/30/2006 5:13:45 PM PST by daybreakcoming
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"November 7th, is going to be a good day for conservatives..."

That's my prediction, too. The left is in major meltdown mode, having already declared "Victory!" a few weeks back.

Man, they're such Losers. You'd think they'd be used to it by now. I guess that "living in an alternate universe" stuff gets in the way though, Eh? ;)


14 posted on 10/30/2006 5:14:15 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Disambiguator

It certainly does.


15 posted on 10/30/2006 5:15:05 PM PST by Aetius
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To: Dane
...a shocking new decision from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...


16 posted on 10/30/2006 5:15:31 PM PST by Nomorjer Kinov (If the opposite of "pro" is "con" , what is the opposite of progress?)
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To: SIDENET

Well, nobody else said it so.....
ROVE, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!


17 posted on 10/30/2006 5:15:48 PM PST by JerseyDvl ("If you attack Americans, we'll defend your right to do it."- The Democrat Party)
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To: Dane

Wow, what's this guy's DUmmie screen name?


18 posted on 10/30/2006 5:17:31 PM PST by COBOL2Java ("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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19 posted on 10/30/2006 5:17:43 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (At 53, I'm already thinkin about goin home before I get to where I'm goin...:-))
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The disaster in Ohio began immediately after the theft of the presidential election here in 2004.

Keep repeating a lie until it 'becomes' the truth. These people are pathetic.
20 posted on 10/30/2006 5:18:31 PM PST by kinoxi
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