Posted on 08/30/2012 8:14:18 AM PDT by LS
First, the OH Sec of State John Husted removed two Democrats from the Montgomery County Board of Elections for violating OH law regarding election times and hours. The two had, despite OH law, tried to keep in place "weekend voting." Atty. Jon Allison, who heard the case, said in his ruling: “No reasonable person… could conclude the Directive is ambiguous and permits weekend hours for in person absentee voting.” He concluded “the facts warrant removal and recommend that the secretary take such action.”
Uniform voting times and places have been established and, according to Husted, will be enforced.
Bush lost Montgomery Co. in both 2000 and 2004, but by such a small margin it didn't matter. But in 08, McCain was blown out in Montgomery Co.
I’m not believing you this time, LS. Sorry. lol
You had me thinking OH was going McCain last time.
Don’t make me pull the threads!
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An issue arose in 2008 concerning a house in Dayton, near the University. There were multiple instances of voting of people from out of state that did not live there. The investigation led to a few and according to state law as long as their INTENTIONS were not to commit voting fraud, all was well. Guess what they claimed....Right. Even though they stated that they felt their vote wouldn’t matter much in their home state since its electoral vote were already in the Obama column.
Via Soren Dayton at The Next Right:
[...] Early voting is taking place in Ohio. Through the end of the week, people can register and vote on the same day. The Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner argues that they are merely “casting their ballot” rather than “voting” so the fact that Ohio statute requires 30 days between registering and voting would not interfere.
So here is what is happening today. People are showing up to register and vote. There is no affirmative evidence that these people have not registered or voted somewhere else. There is no control. Normally in an election, partisan election monitors are allowed into polling places so that they can police each other. But not in two counties, Franklin and Montgomery, in Ohio. Brunner also issued an advisory opinion to counties saying that they are not required to allow election monitors.
Snark - I can independently vrify this report from LS. It has been in the news here in Cincinnati and in Dayton. Husted is making gains in controlling the polls and minimizing shenanigans this time around.
Any state that allows a person to register and vote on the same day is ensuring that voter fraud is not only happening, but it is being aided and abetted by the state. The practice of registering and voting on the same day at the same time is insane. There is no time to validate whether the voter is even entitled to register much less vote.
I live in Louisiana. Registration terminates 30 days prior to an election. This allows ample time to check the info provided by the registrant at the time that it is submitted. Also, early voting is allowed for only five days prior to an election and a photo ID is required. Early voting is conducted at the Registrar of Voters office and no where else. We aren’t perfect, but we aren’t stupid either.
The one thing I don’t understand about Husted’s actions here is the original move to curtail weekend early voting. What purpose did that serve? It doesn’t prevent fraud, doesn’t save much money (in most areas, there are election workers working on the weekends anyway), and weekend voting does help some who may have difficulty voting do so.
For instance, I work long/irregular hours, and often need to travel on short notice, so I always vote before election day, and do so on the weekend when possible.
All this post says---and this is indisputable---is that the GOP Sec of State has enforced, and is enforcing the voting laws now. This is a big change from 08. So I'm not commenting on the state of the general election.
But I would ask you this: do you really think a relative unknown, Josh Mandel, can be running even in all the polls with incumbent Sherrod Brown and the top of the ticket be trailing in OH? I don't think so. But, as I say, I don't even have evidence at this point except for a few polls that have OH basically tied.
Grassely was on FOX news the other day, talking about polls, he was using Iowa as the example. He said that the pollsters were still over loading the polls with Democrats, using the same numbers from 2008, when in Iowa, the Democrats out numbered Republicans by a huge margin, now Republican out number Democrats, albeit by a smaller margin, but that is still a huge swing that is not being reflected in any of the polls.
I believe that is true, but as Snarkytart notes, I wrongly called OH for McCain in 08. That was based on internal party polling that later we found out was badly flawed. It was also based on the (wrong) assumption that if we turned out the GOP #s, as we did in 04, that it would be sufficient to win. We found out on election night, when we looked at a “red” district that should have been 100% McCain we found that in fact it had gone almost 25% Obama. We knew instantly that all the polls we saw were wrong-—Republicans were voting for Obama.
That was true in 2008 for a lot of reasons, but those people changed their registration between 08 and 2010, now the registrations have changed back.
I am also looking at the Obama court case against Gallup, after the polls that showed Romney winning the electoral vote, as proof that the Gallup poll was right.
Well, I think (just because Snarky is right-—just my opinion, no evidence) that all of the Dem oversampled polls are deliberate for several reasons, but one of the less obvious is that the drive-bys are trying to set the stage to delegitimize a Romney presidency by asking “How could the polls showing Zero won be sooooo off? Someone cheated!”
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