Is crossover voting anything like crossdressing?
Posted on 03/08/2008 7:20:22 PM PST by rface
It started a few weeks ago when conservative radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh suggested that his Republican following cross over during the primary to vote for Clinton. Clinton, Limbaugh argued, would be easier for McCain to beat in November......
A staggering 16,000-plus Republicans in Cuyahoga County switched parties when they voted in last week's primary.
At least one member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections wants to investigate some Republicans who may have crossed party lines only to influence which Democrat would face John McCain.
Anyone who crossed lines was supposed to sign a pledge card vowing allegiance to their new party. In Cuyahoga County, dozens and dozens of Republicans scribbled addendums onto their pledges as new Democrats.
"For one day only."
"I don't believe in abortion."
A Plain Dealer review of thousands of records showed few of those who switched were challenged by poll workers.
Ohio voters are allowed to switch party affiliations on the day of a primary election but only if they sign a pledge vowing to support their new party - and mean it.
Lying on the pledge is a felony, punishable by six to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.cleveland.com ...
Yeah we know all about crossover voting here in Michigan.
And in NH and SC
Is crossover voting anything like crossdressing?
How about a dem crossing over and voting for Mc Cain.... no problem with that?
Anyone who voted for Hillary must be sincere or they wouldn’t have done it - I could never do it.
For somebody as utterly humorless as Amanda Garrett, she sure writes funny stuff.
Wow, I must sign a pledge card and double dog swear. What next, a brain activity sensor to see if you are telling the truth? The silly season is here.
Oh those rascally mischievous Republican mavericks, they’re at it again.
“What next, a brain activity sensor to see if you are telling the truth?”
Don’t give those ‘Rats any ideas.......
Oh, BOO HOO!
What’s good for the goose.... I wonder if the same attention and whining will be editorialized when they, the dimorats, stuff the ballot boxes with votes from illegal aliens and dead people who are still on the registers?
Too funny.
They can't even get this right. That's not what Rush said. He said he wanted to keep the nomination process going as long as possible to "bloody" the candidates and force this to the convention, which looks like it will.
Since the general election has the candidates from all the parties that qualify to be on the ballot, and since it is a secret ballot (even in Ohio) this is a meaningless pledge (except for those with too much integrity to lie, i.e. most conservatives).
proving this in a court would be near impossible and a huge waste of resources
If they said “for one day only” they weren’t lying! LOL!
Since when do Dimmocrats care about wasting resources?!
Just tell the court appointed lawyer you want to plead “temporary insanity” when they prosecute.
For one day only, I don’t believe in abortions.
This is hilarious!! Guess the Dems don’t like their own game being played, eh?
Maybe they DID mean it. They just changed their minds immediately after voting.
Hey Rats, ain't payback a bitch? (LOL)
Lying on the pledge is a felony, punishable by six to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
ROFLMAO! Yeah, that will stand up in court.
Well if you switched affiliations to DemocRAT but donated money to the RNC and Repuplican candidates, it would be pretty easy to demonstrate bad faith. All it would take would be to cross reference the voter roll database to a political contributions database.
It would really be fun if they did prosecute a bunch.
Not the same thing, they are still voting for a democrat!
“Your Honor, when I signed the pledge, I meant it before I didn’t mean it.”
As a resident of Medina county (Ohio), I was fourth in line to vote when I arrived at my local polling station. All those in front of me declared their party affiliation as required … all were democrats. When my turn came, I declared myself “Republican”. You could have heard a mouse fart with all the sudden silence that ensued, it was most deafening. ;-)
The only way to deal with this problem is to put thousands of Ohio Republican crossover voters in jail and let the murderers, robbers and rapists go free.
Huh. I walked up and was asked if I was voting democrat or Republican. That was it.
Same here lol. It was funny.
It’s a good thing that this was not Chicago or Philly! Half of the dead folk there would have crossed over!!!!!!!!!
It’s only “illegal” if Republicans do it. However, when they crossed over to vote, they became DemocRATS for that day. Therefore, no crime.
“It started a few weeks ago when conservative radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh suggested that his Republican following cross over during the primary to vote for Clinton. Clinton, Limbaugh argued, would be easier for McCain to beat in November......”
Limbaugh never said this. He wants Republicans to crossover to help wreak havoc in the dim party and he hopes that they will have a contentious convention whereby Hitlery steals the nomination. He has never said the she would be easier to beat than Obambi the Obamalyptic candidate.
My grandparents, who live in the Cleveland area, would have fits if they knew I was a Republican.
I dare them to try to make that argument...I HIGHLY doubt the wording in the regulations stipulates "and mean it"...LOL.
Coming from the same party who gave us “It all depends on what the meaning of the word is is.” this is rich!
I didn’t post that. I seldom listen to Rush.
The little old lady (polling volunteer) who was processing my voting “credit card” completely lost her sense of humor when I approached her. I made a point of being very nice to her and wished her a very nice day. ;-)
Mark Belling (local talkshow host in Milwaukee) said the only way to have voter ID laws and stricter election rules would be for Republicans to cheat like the Democrats do. It looks like he may be on to something.
I got celebrity treatment.
Eggxactly, Joanne! Well said! Touche!
This election..large conservative counties need to hold out reporting. They always play chicken but blink first.
Of course my sweat shirt proclaiming “Vote Republican if you value life” didn’t help much.
I didn’t think you could do that.
I dont think that proves anything....many wall streeters contribute to both parties...
but my point was you really cant prove intent...that would require you to read the voters mind...which aint gonna happen...
it would be perfectly acceptable as a defense to say you woke up on super tuesday and was sure you were going to vote democrat this year, and then you saw some candidates remarks on the news following your ballot casting, and claim you realized what a huge mistake you made and you’ll never vote democrat again...until next time:)
Being the coward that I am, I didn’t open my winter coat to reveal this political statement until I had voted and was leaving the polling station. ;-)
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