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pan6467 · 11-01-2004, 01:17 PM

Some of you truly need to be educated on what this was really in Ohio.

What these "republican" challengers were going to be allowed to do.

Here's the deal.

I go in and SHOW my ID and get my ballot. The GOP challengers then could look at my name and what I am registered as and decide I was not valid. (EVEN THOUGH I HAD SHOWN MY ID AND PROVEN I WAS WHO I AM AND AT THE RIGHT PRECINCT).

Now the GOP challenges my name (they can do so for ANY REASON), when I turn in my ballot it is taken, my name put on it and put into a pile. Then the person in charge of that precinct goes down the challenged list and decides with 2 witnesses 1 from each party and decides whose ballot is legit and whose isn't.

Those voters that were in doubt or had their ballots discarded through this process, WOULD NEVER KNOW THEIR VOTE WAS NOT COUNTED AS THE CHALLENGES REMAIN TOTALLY PRIVATE.

That's basically the gist. You can read the whole article in Friday's Plain Dealer.

Sorry, but to me that's fixing an election. The Dems were not allowed to do it, why just the GOP?????? Talk about election fixing bullshit.

So some of you GOP'ers who think this was funny and truly believe that Ohio should do this think what you would do if this happened where you lived and it was the Dems. being able to challenge.

This is just one of the many voter's issues that the GOP government in Columbus has sponsered and tried to get through. But even on the challengers issues Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R) and other state GOP'ers were against. And Blackwell is the man that threw out 1000's of registrations simply because they were on the wrong paper. (And ooo btw he changed the paper requirement AFTER recieving the registrations.)

11-01-2004, 01:17 PM	#11 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	Some of you truly need to be educated on what this was really in Ohio. What these "republican" challengers were going to be allowed to do. Here's the deal. I go in and SHOW my ID and get my ballot. The GOP challengers then could look at my name and what I am registered as and decide I was not valid. (EVEN THOUGH I HAD SHOWN MY ID AND PROVEN I WAS WHO I AM AND AT THE RIGHT PRECINCT). Now the GOP challenges my name (they can do so for ANY REASON), when I turn in my ballot it is taken, my name put on it and put into a pile. Then the person in charge of that precinct goes down the challenged list and decides with 2 witnesses 1 from each party and decides whose ballot is legit and whose isn't. Those voters that were in doubt or had their ballots discarded through this process, WOULD NEVER KNOW THEIR VOTE WAS NOT COUNTED AS THE CHALLENGES REMAIN TOTALLY PRIVATE. That's basically the gist. You can read the whole article in Friday's Plain Dealer. Sorry, but to me that's fixing an election. The Dems were not allowed to do it, why just the GOP?????? Talk about election fixing bullshit. So some of you GOP'ers who think this was funny and truly believe that Ohio should do this think what you would do if this happened where you lived and it was the Dems. being able to challenge. This is just one of the many voter's issues that the GOP government in Columbus has sponsered and tried to get through. But even on the challengers issues Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R) and other state GOP'ers were against. And Blackwell is the man that threw out 1000's of registrations simply because they were on the wrong paper. (And ooo btw he changed the paper requirement AFTER recieving the registrations.) __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?" Last edited by pan6467; 11-01-2004 at 01:27 PM..