Posted on 10/21/2010 11:59:17 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The Cincinnati Public Schools system "expressly denies" that it did anything wrong when it allowed a group of high school students to be bused during school hours to the Board of Elections, to be shown sample ballots that included only Democrats, and then to vote.
And it promises never to do it again.
Thomas Brinkman, a Republican candidate for county auditor, and a group called the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending & Taxes filed a legal complaint after three van loads of students from Hughes High School were bused on Oct. 13 to the Hamilton County Board of Elections. The students, all registered voters, were given sample ballots that listed only Democratic candidates -- "clearly with the intention of instructing [them] how to vote," according to the complaint -- before they cast their ballots.
Then the kids were then taken for free ice cream, a move Brinkman and the coalition said was tantamount to "bribery."
Brinkman's attorney, Chris Finney, said a teacher at the high school coordinated with Gwen Robinson, a former principal within the district, to allow a local church to provide three vans to transport the students to a local polling location.
"We wanted to stop this activity, to stop the buses from rolling and the one-sided nature of the contact," Finney told FoxNews.com. "We want academic freedom."
On Wednesday, attorneys for the school district and Brinkman filed an agreed order that calls for the district to "not use any personnel or property" for advocating any particular political candidate or party.
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Aren’t these tactics against election laws? If not, they should be. This is not acceptable.
Just contact Eric Holder. He’ll take care of it.
Jesus people...
Haven’t you learned by now that NOTHING is illegal if Done-While-Democrat?
Using Church vans to take High school students to vote for democratic candidates during school hours... USING CHURCH VANS? the gall of such government funded administrators.....
Did the students actually vote? It’s bad enough even if they didn’t. The article is not clear on that. My guess would be that they actually voted and these votes will count.
Hope someone is watching the facilities for the mentally challenged and the rest homes. Both were violated in 2008.
The left has no shame at taking advantage of people who are easily led.
How many high school students are old enough to vote?
Probably around 5-10%.
Yesterday was the first day I heard these were Church vans. Why aren't the libs totally upset that the gov'mint run sckrewl kids were allowed to ride in Church vans?
Excuse me? Local churches being used to bus high school kids to political events? The Democrat hypocrisy just piles higher and higher.
REPEAL THE 26TH AMENDMENT!
SOP in the commie playbook. They still get away with it
Don't count military votes? After the election, pay a fine (with taxpayer money) and promise not to do it again. But the votes still get flushed.
“Why aren’t the libs totally upset that the gov’mint run sckrewl kids were allowed to ride in Church vans? “
No, silly. They are almost certainly black churches. That’s completely different.
Well, that was actually a sarcastic answer I gave, and hoped a liberal reading the threads here might just just get upset a little bit. The left abhors religion and that using the Church vans for something like this would upset them.
I know, if it were ONLY Republican ballots, this would be on every major news channel for days and the libs would have their panties in a wad.
Sharron Angle is right——ABOLISH the entire EDUCATION department!!!!!!
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