Judge rules Ohio homeless voters may list park benches as addresses

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | 10/28/2008 | Unkown

[blondee123]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that aren't buildings as their addresses.

U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can't be invalidated because of poll worker errors.

[proudtobeanamerican1]

LOL

[longtermmemmory]

and how do they prove they are not an illegal alien homless person living illegally in the USA on a park bench?

[longtermmemmory]

NO MORE DOJ LAWYERS FOR JUDGES!!!!

all these DOJ nitwits are just beyond ignorant.

[meyer]

However, we need to remember this for the next election.

If Obama wins, there won't be a "next election".

[Brown Deer]

ping

[Paved Paradise]

The people of Columbus need to write down this judge’s name and make sure they vote him OUT.

[a real Sheila]

and yet in VA, they are THROWING OUT military absentee ballots that don’t show an address for the person who WITNESSED the person voting!
WTF?
W-T-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!

[GinaLolaB]

Sargus, Edmund A. Jr.

Born 1953 in Wheeling, WV

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

White Liberal Males are killing us.

[Bean Counter]

“I think we should take off and nuke the site from orbit.

It’s the only way to be sure...”

How many different ways can a judge ****-up an election?

Let us go to Ohio and count the ways...

[bimboeruption]

>>The people of Columbus need to write down this judge’s name and make sure they vote him OUT.<<

We don’t get to vote for federal judges. They are appointed.

[Ole Okie]

Our Justices are NUTS.....next this Judge’s HORSE will be allowed to vote.

Nah, the judge's horse (both front and rear end) is running for the Congers.

[Beckwith]

Appointed by President Bill Clinton.

[Paved Paradise]

Yes I know. I don’t know what I was thinking - I saw judge and just thought of local judge, but of course this would not be a decision made in that way. Oy. I hate lawyers anyway.

[callisto]

Ballot Access News
edited by Richard Winger

Socialist Party Put on Ohio Ballot by Federal Court
August 21st, 2008
http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/08/21/socialist-party-put-on-ohio-ballot-by-federal-court/

On August 21, U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Sargus issued an order putting the Socialist Party on the Ohio ballot. Specifically, Brian Moore for president and Stewart Alexander for vice-president will be listed on the November ballot with “Socialist” next to their names. Moore v Brunner, 2:08cv-224.

The Ohio Green Party knows about this decision and hopes to gain the same sort of relief for itself.

Judge Sargus said about the Socialist Party, “The Court finds that the Socialist Party USA has the requisite community support to be placed on the ballot in Ohio based on the following undisputed facts in the parties’ memoranda. Socialist Party USA has a century-long history of involvement in presidential politics. The party held its last bienniel convention in St. Louis, Missouri, in October 2007, at which time it nominated Moore and Alexander as its candidates. Socialist Party candidates appeared on the ballot in 8 states in the 2004 presidential election, and garnered 10,822 votes nationwide. For the upcoming 2008 election, plaintiffs Moore and Alexander have currently qualified in Vermont, New Jersey and Colorado and are actively seeking ballot access in 18 other states, including Ohio. As for a showing of support in Ohio, the Socialist Party has ‘an active state affiliate in Ohio with a Charter and state officers” since at least 1999. The party has gathered several thousand signatures of Ohio residents.”

This is the first time the Socialist Party has ever won a ballot access lawsuit in federal court. The party won many ballot access lawsuits in state courts, in the period 1900-1948. The party also won a federal lawsuit in Iowa in the 1980’s, to win the right of its members to serve as deputy registrars of voters, but that was not a ballot access case.