Posted on 09/30/2010 9:43:31 AM PDT by Ravi
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in Ohio's three largest counties have asked for absentee ballots this year -- an ominous sign for the party hoping to repel GOP forces on Election Day.
Roughly three out of 10 registered Ohio voters live in Franklin, Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
I can already smell the blood of the Democrats.
Doesn't anybody know how to write anything? Republicans looking to repel their own voters?
No, they meant it’s an ominous sign for the Democrats. The DEMOCRATS are the party hoping to repel GOP forces.
Stay vigilant....this fact means little to ACORN who probably already has ones prefilled out to close and overcome this gap.
Only one problem,,,,,
“In Cuyahoga County, registered Democrats have requested 60,960 absentee ballots compared with 28,888 for voters registered as Republicans, according to the county Board of Elections figures through Tuesday.”
As a turnout indication this is a positive for republicans. ON the other hand, absentee ballots are frequently not counted at all—ever. And they “get lost” easily too.
That was my thought, I think traditionally, Republicans vote by absentee ballots more than Democrats. Not sure of that, maybe soeone has some past statistics on these counties.
The articles title is EXTREMELY misleading!
” Hamilton County Democrats requested 43,419 absentee ballots compared with 27,813 from county Republicans that year.”
“Consider that Democrats hold an almost four-to-one edge in voter registration in Cuyahoga County, according to Ohio Secretary of State office statistics. Once that ratio is taken into account, the numbers show 33 percent of the Republicans in Cuyahoga County have requested an absentee ballot thus far compared with 18 percent of Democrats.”
Just heard on Rush that one of those counties is Cleveland. Does that mean these ballots will disappear and wont be counted?
Correct me if I’m wrong but in a general (non-primary) election isn’t the ballot the same for all voters regardless of registration?
If so then such counts should NOT be publicly announced.
As usual, seemingly innocuous stories about voter demographics etc. is an attempt to influence the outcome and maybe - they hope - bring scorn to the GOP.
Dems and leftists (possibly redundant) just can’t sit still and allow the election to decide - they are constantly trying to shift the goalposts.
Not any more. This was true when there was 5% absentees and a margin of victory more than that. Now, with 30 - 40% of votes by mail, they have to count them, and they do.
ACORN or SEIU? Hmmmm...very skeptical!
That’s good to know. What about “lost” ballots?
In Cuyahoga Dems lead the absentee race 2 to 1
Among all registered Cuyaghoga voters Dems lead GOP at least 4 to 1
So: A higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in Cuyahoga.
Democrats need to win Cuyahoga by 200,000 (maybe 150k) votes to win Ohio.
You might be screwed there but you can look up after the fact, at the board of elections, if they recieved your ballot.
What they can't tell you about are ones that are tampered, because they wouldn't know.
Beware! The vote fraud scamsters often create “phantom voters” and register them as Republicans, Greens, etc. to confuse investigators. However, the phantoms always vote democrat.
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EVERYDAY FRODO MOVES CLOSER TO MORDOR!
Lord of the Rings reference.
This should be no ones business.
Now the demonrats know how much they need to cheat by.
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