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You Won’t Believe What They Did to the Ohio Ballot to Stop Trump
Daily Sheeple ^ | 3/8/2016 | Piper McGowan

Posted on 03/09/2016 5:32:59 AM PST by HomerBohn

We all know the elite are on the warpath against Donald Trump, with everyone from pundits, to major world leaders, to the Pope speaking out against him. Newt Gingrich recently said it’s because Trump isn’t part of the secret societies and hasn’t taken the initiation rites.

Regardless, Trump has received a groundswell of support from the average conservative American, winning state primaries left and right. Ohio’s primary is coming up on March 15, and it’s a big one because it’s a “winner takes all” state.

Well now it’s being alleged that Ohio’s GOP has intentionally set up a confusing ballot in a bid to try to make sure Donald Trump does not win.

The Dem ballot has one place for voters to mark their choice for president. Period.

The Republican ballot in Ohio this year apparently has two, leaving a lot more questions than answers about whether or not voters will understand how it works.

Take a look, (via the Conservative Treehouse):

Is the ballot intentionally confusing by design?

Given the previous discussions on State Party shenanigans, and the intent of state republican party leadership to hold complete influence over their delegate’s decision-making, many believe the answer is “probably”.

Look at that ballot. It definitely raises a lot of questions… that aren’t answered on the ballot.

Do the majority of voters know the difference between “Delegates-at-Large” and “District Delegates”? Does a person need to choose their candidate twice, or are they only supposed to chose once? Which is right? What if they pick a different candidate in each box, do they cancel each other out? What if they pick someone in the first box and not the second, or vice versa?

Why the confusing GOP ballot, Ohio?

(Watch a video at the link)


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ballots; election; gopprimary; ohio; ohioprimary; primary
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To: HomerBohn

Bttt


21 posted on 03/09/2016 5:55:04 AM PST by novemberslady
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To: HomerBohn
Reads to me like the two columns are for two separate categories of delegates, district and statewide. And besides, all the candidates are in both so why is this discriminatory against Trump? Because his feelings are so easily hurt?

Of course the GOP establishment is against him. He's not really a Republican much less one of them. Single Payer, Individual Mandate, Planned Parenthood Support, Higher Tax Rates, and LGBT special rights aren't exactly Republican positions. They hate Cruz too and he's never been anything but a Republican, just of the Libertarian TEA Party variety. We all want the Quislings defeated and replaced by men and women who will hog tie and gut the Democrats. Question is if Trump agrees with the Democrats on so many litmus test issues why do we expect him to not collude with them in office? He seems to reserve most of his venom for his "fellow" Republicans of whatever stripe.

22 posted on 03/09/2016 5:55:49 AM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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To: pgyanke

same thing happened on the Louisiana ballot.

it also had to be double marked for candidate & also candidate’s delegate.

so trump won the popular vote, but ended up splitting the delegate count because of mis marked ballots, iirc.


23 posted on 03/09/2016 5:57:41 AM PST by thinden
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To: Flick Lives

“lists of names are not in alphabetical order, but two different random orders.”

I used to be in charge of elections in Alaska. It was code mandated that candidates’ names be in random order — I guess to prevent people from coming in and voting for the first name on the list, and not putting some thought into it. I don’t know if that’s the case in other states, but it was (maybe still is) law in Alaska.

I made it hell for the printer of the ballots!

Double listing... That’s a PROBLEM!


24 posted on 03/09/2016 5:57:48 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( If the word, "SENATOR" is before his name, he is part of the PROBLEM.)
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To: sharkhawk

“Or are you saying Trump voters are dimmer than other Republican voters?”

Doesn’t Trump himself call them the ‘lowly educated’?


25 posted on 03/09/2016 5:58:28 AM PST by Beagle8U
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To: HomerBohn

Just check Donald Trump twice. Easy-peasy.

The GOP-e forgets that conservatives are usually smarter than liberals. Or is Ohio a duplicitous “open primary” state?


26 posted on 03/09/2016 5:59:50 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: HomerBohn

You are voting for seperate set of delegates.

District delegates
Delegates at large

I’m assuming district are just that some district level
At Large would be statewide I’d think


27 posted on 03/09/2016 6:00:19 AM PST by deport
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I suppose if Lisa Murkowski can win a write-in campaign...


28 posted on 03/09/2016 6:01:42 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: HomerBohn

Looks like Kasich’s name appears twice too. So how is that picking on Trump?


29 posted on 03/09/2016 6:02:23 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (I am undecided between Cruz, Rubio & Trump...)
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To: SolidRedState
Much ado about nothing. Delegates-at-large and district delegates selected separately. No big deal.

Nailed it. Just pick Trump twice. (I would pick Cruz twice if I lived in Ohio. :-))

30 posted on 03/09/2016 6:03:57 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: pgyanke

Yeah really!

All canidates will be affected equally. Unless you are claiming the Trump’s supporters can’t read. But that’s just mean.


31 posted on 03/09/2016 6:13:03 AM PST by the_boy_who_got_lost
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To: HomerBohn

I posted your link to Trump’s facebook page. Someone had already posted it.


32 posted on 03/09/2016 6:14:52 AM PST by Cats Pajamas (Any time now Hillary will be bring out the rent-a-dogs!)
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To: HomerBohn

The Ohio ballot is always this way. Breath and count to ten, Donald.


33 posted on 03/09/2016 6:15:55 AM PST by goodwithagun (March 3, 2016: The date FReepers justified the "goodness" of Planned Parenthood.)
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To: HomerBohn

Uh.....ALL Presidential Candidates face the same ballot confusion.

If Trump supporters are more affected than the others, it’s an IQ problem.


34 posted on 03/09/2016 6:18:42 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: HomerBohn

Looks the same for everyone. Just to be sure, though, write his name in, too.


35 posted on 03/09/2016 6:19:19 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: HomerBohn
Looks to me like it's the same for every candidate?

...is it not?

36 posted on 03/09/2016 6:24:59 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: pgyanke
It looks a little confusing, sure. But how does this affect one candidate more than any other?

Trump loves the poorly educated voter.

37 posted on 03/09/2016 6:25:31 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: HomerBohn

Is this a new design or has it always been like this? Hence Ohio voters are used to seeing it.

Anyone from Ohio care to comment?

This is much ado about nothing.


38 posted on 03/09/2016 6:36:52 AM PST by the_boy_who_got_lost
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To: HomerBohn

They also put shiny objects in the voting booth to hypmotize the Trump supporters. Some stood staring at the objects for two hours, denying other heroic Trump voters the opportunity to use the booth. One Trump supporter was so mesmerized by the shiny things twirling and spinning that he got dizzy and fell out of the voting booth, rolled down a hill into a river, forgot he knew how to swim and drowned. Then he went home all wet and was sad and can’t even remember if he forgot to vote for Trump! Damn elites!!


39 posted on 03/09/2016 6:39:32 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Carl Grimes.)
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To: HomerBohn

I don’t think this disadvantages Trump, it is just as confusing whoever you vote for (unless that happens to Huckabee who only appears under Delegates-at-Large and not under the 16th-District Delegates). But as the guy in the video makes clear - no one seems to know whether voters should mark one or both lists.


40 posted on 03/09/2016 6:43:08 AM PST by Mr Radical
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