Posted on 10/27/2012 10:06:14 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Why did Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State place the means of statewide voter fraud in the hands of the Democrat Party and the criminal, Obama machine?
By October 19th, 1.43 million Ohioans had requested absentee ballots for the November election. But for some obscure reason, Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted mailed nearly 7 million absentee ballot applications to registered voters across the state whether they had been requested or not!
According to Ohio law, absentee ballots must be requested no later than November 3rd and returned by November 5th, one day prior to the election. Those who do not return their ballot may still vote at the polls, but must cast a provisional ballot. Of course, “that’s so officials may verify that they did not vote absentee and also show up at the polls.” (1)
But those provisional ballots are...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
‘Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted on Friday appealed a federal judge’s ruling that Ohio must count provisional votes cast in the wrong location due to poll worker error so long as they are cast in the correct county.’
You are so dead ass wrong it isn’t even funny. You blame the Secty of State in Ohio for a court ruling????
It is always so nice to see conservatives shooting their own
That makes an EXTRA 5.6 million that will have to be accounted for and checked against the other ballots. We all know how efficiently government does things.
No, I believe his complaint is with the SoS mailing absentee request forms out to everyone in the state, although there was no requirement to do so.
Great post. The guy should be hung, drawn, and quartered for this error.
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This isn’t new as the SOS announced he was doing the application mailing back in Sept. This will make Ohio one big mess in the scheme of things as voters that send back a request for an absentee ballot but choose to vote at the polls will have to get a provisional ballot which means more processing before that ballot can be counted.
It seems like a bigger mess was created no matter how good the SOS felt the intent of his action was.
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Wednesday, 05 September 2012 13:19
Ohio voters to receive absentee ballot applications by mail
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has announced that this week more than six million applications to vote absentee in the upcoming Presidential Election will be mailed to Ohio voters, arriving in mailboxes shortly after Labor Day.
“This mailing represents an unprecedented move toward uniformity, accessibility and fairness in Ohio’s elections process,” Secretary Husted said. “For the first time voters in all 88 counties will receive an application to vote by mail – turning their kitchen table into a voting booth.”
Voters need only to complete the personalized absentee ballot application by providing valid identification, date of birth and signature, and mail it back. Their ballot will then be mailed to them.
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I forget to Link the snip I inserted in the above post:
I don’t know anything about the guy. But, I saw an interview with him and was not impressed at all ....just thought to myself if this goes down to ohio he’ll squish under any pressure
I'll be traveling overseas on business on Nov. 6 so I sent in an application, handily provided to me by a Republican Party door-to-door solicitor (the town I live in is probably 80% Republican). Three days later a very large thick envelope arrived from the county election board containing a two page ballot (completely fill in the ovals, similar to a standardized test), detailed personal information form and instruction sheet (in duplicate), and two large envelopes. It took me five minutes to complete the application form, ten minutes to fill out the ballot (with a judicial candidate party endorsement guide at hand), and then I had to make sure to sign and date in a couple places plus on the outside of one of the two envelopes. That envelope went inside the other and $1.40 (I think) postage had to be applied to send it in.
I had to vote by absentee ballot in 1998 (pre-Florida Chads) under similar circumstance using a hole punch ballot. The whole operation took less than five minutes with far less required in terms of making sure every "i" was crossed and "t" dotted. As I was going through the process this year it occurred to me that a very large portion of Obama voters will have trouble reading and understanding the instructions much less following them to a successfully counted vote.
And then I smiled.
So, with all of that info they require does it limit your ability to vote twice?
Ummm... We are taking into consideration the difference between applications for absentee ballots and actual absentee ballots, right ? You can’t vote with an application so if there is an effective screening process for the applications this may not be a big deal. Almost everyone in the state will likely receive such applications from their party anyway. I received and used such an application in PA from the Romney team. I made sure to put white labels over any evidence that the application was sent by the republican party as I was afraid the post office would “lose” it otherwise. My wife ordered a bunch of items from the Romney site, all got “lost” except for a yard sign that arrived damaged. That’s what happens when you allow “public servants” to unionize.
There is another problem listed - I'll read that and comment.
I instructed in Texas Election Code to Republican County Chairs and election judges and clerk for 10 years and other states’ election laws are not much different. After the Florida fiasco, the federal government wrote laws to help resolve the differences in laws between the states. Those changes were very good ones.
Wouldn't know. My dad's family, going back to the Civil War, has always been Republican. Voting more than once or post-mortem is not part of that tradition.
The other problem was, a voter filled out the application and got a ballot, then didn't use the ballot, and went to vote in person instead.
During my ten years of working with elections, we would have this problem, but very few of them, but here's the way it works:
1. If the voter takes that mail ballot with him/her when they go to vote in person, the judge will take that ballot which solves that problem, and the voter gets a new ballot and votes in person. The judge has an envelope in which to deposit the mail ballot that wasn't used, and it eventually goes back to the elections administrator.
2. If the voter goes to vote in person and didn't bring the mail ballot, the judge has a list of those who received a mail ballot and will see that check by that voter's name. That person will vote a Provisional Ballot and the Early Voting Ballot Board will meet in a few days and go through the Provisional Ballots to determine, by using county records and the master voter list, whether that ballot should be valid. The Board will know if the voter's mail ballot came in or didn't, and the judgement will be made.
Surveys across the nation show not many Provisional Ballots are accepted by that Board. That is because most of the election judges know their business and caught a problem with a voter and told the voter he/she had to vote a Provisional Ballot.
If you think ALL provisional ballots are just opened and counted in the election totals, and that's it, that is wrong. Each of those has to be evaluated and not many ballots make it through that evaluation.
He did what???
Not at all. I helped my mom get her absentee ballot and in the process discovered that she could have voted in 3 counties. Whether all 3 votes would have been counted is something I don't know. I do know that getting those 3 ballots for her would have been easy.
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