If the box is not required, then disqualifying someone who did not check the box is an obvious, blatant attempt to disenfranchise those voters. This woman should be fired.
Dems are going to do anything they can to try to win Ohio. No matter how low handed. They tried to cheat in our Ohio election in 2004. But Ken Blackwell stood against them and kept our election process clean.
Now we see how important it is for voters not to get mad at a Republican Governor like Taft, stay home, and allow a Dem to become Governor. Maybe someday people will get it through their brains that we need Republican Governors and quit this crap of staying home or voting for a Dem if they don’t like the GOP candidate because there are consequences like what we are seeing with a Dem Secretary of State.
This means that in Ohio we need more votes then ever for Sen McCain to make sure we can defeat the Dem election tactics.
With all the Rat vote fraud in the last 80 plus years, you would think that the Republicans would have learned how to play the game by now.
If the box stating the person is an eligible elector — or qualified voter – is not checked, Brunner said, the application is no good.
Even though the box is unneeded, by not checking it voters are essentially admitting they’re not eligible, Brunner said.
Brunner was elected in 2006 on a campaign encouraging fewer restrictions on voters
The state has a well designed form, and the McCain camp made theirs unnecessarily more complicated and created this problem where if the box isn't checked, the request for a ballot doesn't meet the legal requirements.
It's a stupid mistake by the McCain campaign in an important swing state they can't afford to lose.
However, it really isn't unreasonable for the Secretary of State to reject those requests for absentee ballots, and if Blackwell were still Secretary of State he probably would have rejected them. He successfully fought both the Democrats and Republicans in court when they tried to bend elections laws.
The McCain camp better do it's best to get word out that if people didn't check the box on their form, they need to submit another request for absentee ballots.
And so the voter fraud begins - by the democrats, as always.
I just looked at my application for a ballot for Ohio and there is no box to check. The ballot request requires phone number, last 4 digits of SSN or drivers license number, date of birth, and signature.
Seems to me if someone furnishes all of the requested info., they should receive a ballot.
My ballot request came from the Franklin County Board of Elections.
My brother relayed this story to me a couple of years ago.
He and his family had moved to San Francisco and he mailed in a voter registration card with "Republican" listed as party affiliation.
No card arrived after a couple of weeks, so he applied again - again marking "Republican" as his affiliation.
Again, no card in the mail.
Once more, he sent in his card marked "Republican". Two weeks went by with no card.
Then he sent in a voter registration card with "Democrat" listed as party affiliation.
He had his card in four days.
Sorry, the Dems got us on this one. It was stupid to put the box on the form. It was stupid to make up a new form at all. They should have exactly duplicated whatever form the state uses.
We should storm her office and force her to back down.
If McCain’s people added such a box, showing it as a requirement, then it is required.
I can’t fault the officials who want to enforce the rules McCain made.
I’m surprised how many people are blindly opposing the Secretary of State. It was stupid of McCain to use anything other than the exact standard form. Do Freepers REALLY want to issue ballots to people who have a big unchecked box by the line “I am eligible to vote?”
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Remember 2000 in Florida where the dems dispatched a memo and lawyers to disqualify absentee (military) voters? They are organized about this stuff.