Posted on 11/01/2004 10:50:22 PM PST by Ramzi Al Kaboom
Nov 2, 1:18 AM EST
AP News Alert
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Ohio attorney general's office and lawyers involved with the case say a federal appeals court has cleared the way for challengers to be present at polling places in Ohio.
link?
YES!!!!!
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sorry didnt get a link was at " the state"....full ap story to follow.
heres where i saw it.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/APNEWSALERT?SITE...
Thanks been looking here for awhile...but finally signed up after Koppels Vietnam piece...GEEZ that was horrible....anyway i hope i did this o.k.....still new...:)
Cool. Here's more from ap.org:
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A federal appeals court has cleared the way for challengers to be present at polling places in Ohio, ruling early Tuesday that their presence on Election Day is allowed under state law.
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to grant emergency stays of two federal judges' orders Monday that barred political parties' voter challengers in Ohio. The judges also consolidated the two cases.
The court said that while there is a strong public interest in letting registered voters vote freely, there is also "strong public interest in permitting legitimate statutory processes to operate to preclude voting by those who are not entitled to vote."
(excerpted)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/state/ohio/2004-11-02-ohio-challengers_x.htm
..."A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to grant emergency stays of two federal judges' orders Monday that barred political parties' voter challengers in Ohio. The judges also consolidated the two cases."...
..."The judges also said that smooth and effective administration of the voting laws means that the rules can't be changed in the hours immediately preceding the election."...
They had announced this on Fox this afternoon, I think during Hannity and Colmes, but then their continued "live" shows, including Greta, went on to ignore it. The "breaking news" segment they did said the only way this could be appealed was to the US Supreme Court and there was no way they'd hear it before voting started tomorrow.
Welcome.....
Thanks, to both of you.
Your quite welcome....thanks for having me....I was up watching the Dallas rally for GW...then started surfing about to see if this story had changed....I wanted to be sure though before I posted anything...nearly 10 years of local radio work makes me do what alot of my fellow broadcasters don't.
MAKE SURE OF YOUR STORY...cc: CBS, NYT, ABC..ect....LOL
Radio....put a plug in for Dubya....tomorrow.....
My guess is that it has already been appealed, and whichever justice has jurisdiction over the 6th Circuit had to get out of bed to sign an order denying cert.
I would if I could...got out of that business ....I miss it though...but now I'm my own boss and that is great.
I do have a small advantage over some of my old radio competitors ( air staff members )
One of my best friends from high school used to be a print reporter. HE now works for Senator Frist....hehe.
Funny thing is he used to be a Democrat...but he got married has two beautiful daughters. Said he decided Republicans pay better...lol
By the way I told him the other day that ..IF he still works for him in 2008 and IF he is the canidate..and IF he wins...I expect the best tour of the whitehouse you can get.
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