Ohio - difference in polling hours depending on majority party in district

[Phokus]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/overt-discrimination-in-ohio.html?_r=2&hp

So apparently, republicans have voted for extended voting hours in republican leaning districts and against it in democratic ones.

Just a reminder that even the Republican Lawyer's Association undercuts the conservative argument that voter fraud is widespread (it averages like .7 cases of voter fraud per state).

The real voter fraud is republicans trying to disenfranchise as many minority/poor/elderly voters as possible.


Thread title edited to be a little closer to the truth. "Voter fraud" not found. -Admin DrPizza

 

[nehalem256]

So not extending voting hours will result in voter fraud how?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Are they stopping a person from having early voting or not being able to vote?
not allowing absentee ballots?

Does the bill/rules state that Democrats or blacks can only vote during certain times?

 

[PokerGuy]

How does extending or not extending poll hours have anything to with voting fraud?

 

[kage69]

Oh cool, another thread in which Voter ID advocates can prove themselves to be dishonest morons! Where have we seen this before?

 

[Matt1970]

Thread title fail

 

[Phokus]

How does extending or not extending poll hours have anything to with voting fraud?

The outcome is worse. "Voter Fraud" is a bullshit meme invented by republicans, when in reality, voter fraud isn't an actual issue (the amount of fraud is miniscule). Dirty republican tricks like this is a MUCH bigger issue. This will suppress votes in Democratic districts while inflate votes in Republican districts.

Of course you guys will clap because you don't want 'undesirable's' (minorities/elderly/the young) to vote. The whole election in Ohio is fraudulent unless it gets overturned.

 

[Phokus]

It's also funny how Republicans are befuddled as to why minorities don't vote for them. This is why.

 

[Orignal Earl]

Thread title fail

Let's add another story

Four GOP House Staffers From Michigan Indicted for Election Fraud

http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/four-gop-house-staffers-michigan-indicted-election-fraud

 

[thraashman]

GOP: Redefining what it means to be a piece of shit since Richard Nixon.

 

[hal2kilo]

Let's add another story

Four GOP House Staffers From Michigan Indicted for Election Fraud

http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/four-gop-house-staffers-michigan-indicted-election-fraud

Ya see, Republicans are well aware of how to really commit election fraud.

 

[nehalem256]

The outcome is worse. "Voter Fraud" is a bullshit meme invented by republicans, when in reality, voter fraud isn't an actual issue (the amount of fraud is miniscule). Dirty republican tricks like this is a MUCH bigger issue. This will suppress votes in Democratic districts while inflate votes in Republican districts.

Of course you guys will clap because you don't want 'undesirable's' (minorities/elderly/the young) to vote. The whole election in Ohio is fraudulent unless it gets overturned.

My question is how are Republicans able to suppress the vote in "Democratic" districts when the choice to extend voting times is a local issue?

 

[Matt1970]

Let's add another story

Four GOP House Staffers From Michigan Indicted for Election Fraud

http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/four-gop-house-staffers-michigan-indicted-election-fraud

Can I play too?

http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/i...raud-is-a-proven-election-manipulation-tactic

http://nation.foxnews.com/wisconsin...s-alleges-democrat-union-vote-fraud-wisconsin

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...democrats_election_forgery_racket_113722.html

 

[kage69]

Why not a third? The voter ID zealots didn't make a peep the last time I posted about it.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/27/vote_fraud_retires_shameless_gop_official/

Charlie White, former Indiana Secretary of State - the state election official and shameless sonovabitch somehow represents hardly a threat to democracy at all when compared to the likes of poor elderly people without cars.

 

[PokerGuy]

Why not a third? The voter ID zealots didn't make a peep the last time I posted about it.

That's because it was irrelevant drivel then too. So the guy committed crimes. He was tried, convicted and sentenced. That has absolutely no bearing at all on this discussion.

 

[xj0hnx]

That's because it was irrelevant drivel then too. So the guy committed crimes. He was tried, convicted and sentenced. That has absolutely no bearing at all on this discussion.

But dude, he's a republican.

 

[thraashman]

Can I play too?

http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/i...raud-is-a-proven-election-manipulation-tactic

http://nation.foxnews.com/wisconsin...s-alleges-democrat-union-vote-fraud-wisconsin

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...democrats_election_forgery_racket_113722.html

So you counter a factual article with 3 opinion pieces by EXTREMELY partisan sources that offer proof of things that would not be solved by voter ID laws and insane conjecture of whatever their current scare tactic is.

 

[Anarchist420]

The republicans sure did do a lot of dirty tricks to dr.paul and his supporters.

 

[csteggo]

Misnamed Title.. Voter suppression is more accurate. The way it happens is that there is a election council that is split 3-3 democrat and republican at the local level who decide on extending hours. For the democrat areas the republicans lockstep with a no for extension of hours based on expenses. Of course the republican districts seem to not have those issues. All ties are decided by republican election official. Is it illegal No not in the least. And are they worried about losing the republican votes due to lower hour availability in the Democrat districts not really chances are it removes more democrats than republicans. Is it immoral? Most people would say yes. By hook or by crook.

 

[Matt1970]

So you counter a factual article with 3 opinion pieces by EXTREMELY partisan sources that offer proof of things that would not be solved by voter ID laws and insane conjecture of whatever their current scare tactic is.

I don't remember saying anything about Voter ID Laws. These are hardly opinions below from those articles.

In March 2012, the county sheriff and clerk in Lincoln County, W.Va., pled guilty to voter fraud. They stuffed enough bogus absentee ballots into ballot boxes to change the outcome of a 2010 Democratic primary election. Was this a one-time incident? Probably not, since the Lincoln County auditor was also found guilty of voter fraud in 2005

 

[werepossum]

So you counter a factual article with 3 opinion pieces by EXTREMELY partisan sources that offer proof of things that would not be solved by voter ID laws and insane conjecture of whatever their current scare tactic is.

So US News, FoxNews, and RealClearPolitics are all "EXTREMELY partisan sources" but alternet.org is respectable journalism? Let's take a gander at Alternet.org's 10 most read list.

1. Doctor: Pubic Hair Exists For a Reason -- Our Obsession With Hairless Genitals Must Stop!

2. Paul Ryan's Biggest Influence: 10 Things You Should Know About the Lunatic Ayn Rand

3. Is it Finally Time to Let the South Secede?

4. 9 Reasons Romney's Choice For Veep is Smarter Than You Know*

5. 7 Scandals That Reveal the Real Mitt Romney

6. 8 Crazy Fox Freakouts About the Olympics

7. The Real Ann Romney

8. Mitt Romney Denies Freedom of Religion

9. Has NPR's Adam Davidson Betrayed His Listeners? Serious Conflict of Interest Issues Exposed

10. I Hooked Up With a Gay Evangelical Christian -- Here's Why I Outed Him

Clearly this is hard-hitting, totally non-biased reportage aimed at protecting us from Republicans, gay Republicans, and deficiencies of pubic hair. It's not at all foaming moonbattery.

Seriously dude, you could type random characters with your nose and look less stupid than in that post.

* Foaming Moonbats, do not panic! Alternet.org has not abandoned its hard-hitting, totally non-biased reportage! The subtitle for article #4 is "Romney's Ryan decision is a hugely dangerous step toward getting the Koch brothers' hand-picked star close to the presidency." Rest assured that Alternet.org remains at least nine times as committed to protecting you from dissenting world views as it is committed to protecting your public hair from peer pressure.

 

[bfdd]

Wouldn't hold it past either major party to cheat, especially in a swing state like Ohio. I don't believe this is the first time the Republicans have been caught trying to cheat there is it?

 

[Jhhnn]

Wouldn't hold it past either major party to cheat, especially in a swing state like Ohio. I don't believe this is the first time the Republicans have been caught trying to cheat there is it?

"They're just as bad" is no defense in this particular incident. Partisan voter suppression is blatant & obvious.

Modern Repub leaders have no shame, no sense of fair play, at all. Voting days & hours should be uniform within any state as an exercise in common decency. They seem to lack that as well.

 

[cybrsage]

So US News, FoxNews, and RealClearPolitics are all "EXTREMELY partisan sources" but alternet.org is respectable journalism? Let's take a gander at Alternet.org's 10 most read list.

1. Doctor: Pubic Hair Exists For a Reason -- Our Obsession With Hairless Genitals Must Stop!

2. Paul Ryan's Biggest Influence: 10 Things You Should Know About the Lunatic Ayn Rand

3. Is it Finally Time to Let the South Secede?

4. 9 Reasons Romney's Choice For Veep is Smarter Than You Know*

5. 7 Scandals That Reveal the Real Mitt Romney

6. 8 Crazy Fox Freakouts About the Olympics

7. The Real Ann Romney

8. Mitt Romney Denies Freedom of Religion

9. Has NPR's Adam Davidson Betrayed His Listeners? Serious Conflict of Interest Issues Exposed

10. I Hooked Up With a Gay Evangelical Christian -- Here's Why I Outed Him

Clearly this is hard-hitting, totally non-biased reportage aimed at protecting us from Republicans, gay Republicans, and deficiencies of pubic hair. It's not at all foaming moonbattery.

Seriously dude, you could type random characters with your nose and look less stupid than in that post.

* Foaming Moonbats, do not panic! Alternet.org has not abandoned its hard-hitting, totally non-biased reportage! The subtitle for article #4 is "Romney's Ryan decision is a hugely dangerous step toward getting the Koch brothers' hand-picked star close to the presidency." Rest assured that Alternet.org remains at least nine times as committed to protecting you from dissenting world views as it is committed to protecting your public hair from peer pressure.

 

[kage69]

That's because it was irrelevant drivel then too. So the guy committed crimes. He was tried, convicted and sentenced.

And what was his sentence? Banana Republican justice, you make it seem like he had something handed his way that would have taught him a lesson.

Would you care to point out any data that shows the GOP gives a shit about election fraud or absentee ballot fraud?


I think it takes a real moron to consider an internal, organized corruption of the process to be less of an issue than an almost nonexistent external threat.

That has absolutely no bearing at all on this discussion.

No bearing? Are you serious?
Well, of course you'd say that. The true threat isn't politically convenient for you and your ilk, so you dismiss it and continue in vain with your little side show. Having an actual politician that oversees the damn election being caught breaking laws is ironic given the same politicians party's agenda to apply tighter controls on the same election process. Hypocrisy directly related to the subject is never without bearing, sorry.