Tessio says..."hell, he can't do that; that screws up all my arrangements!"
Posted on 09/29/2014 7:47:54 PM PDT by Nachum
The Supreme Court’s conservatives cleared the way Monday for Ohio to restrict early voting in the state, on the eve of the day it was to start. The court granted the state’s request to stay decisions of lower courts that threw out the state’s new plan, passed by the Republican-led legislature. But the court’s four liberal justices said they would have stayed out of the case and left those decisions in place. Ohio argued that the new plan--reducing from 35 to 28 the number of days voters could cast an early ballot--could not be seen as violating the rights of
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Vote for anybody but Boehner!
Amen.
Every little bit of common sense we can get helps.
28 days to vote?
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Since there is no constitutional requirement to allow more than one day to vote, why is this in court in the first place?
28 days? This is a joke! Ripe for fraud. Hopefully they’ll have to show id. They really should be fingerprinted.
Doesnt the Constitution actually allow for ONE day for voting? And only citizens of the USA are allowed to legally vote? Why do judges decide they can make law?? Better 28 than 35, but really what grounds do the whiners have to claim voter suppression?.
Scotus order from earlier thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3209141/posts?page=15#15
http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ohio-order-9-29-14.pdf
ONLY 28 DAYS TO VOTE???
OH THE HUGE MANATEE!!!
“early voting” is fraud enablement.
I agree. I think early voting is grounds for voting fraud. It’s a chip, at the very least.
When I vote in my southern Ohio county, I do have to show ID and sign my name. Who knows what they do elsewhere.
Military personnel have more "skin in the game" than ANYBODY! Govt parasites have only leeching in the game.
Get rid of early voting. These stinking judges are saying that the way voting was conducted from the day voting began is unconstitutional. The writers of the Constitution didn't understand the intent of their own writing.
Good thing we have these obviously superior judges to point that out!
I think that voting should be 1 day -— 24 hours ——— no early voting and no absentee ballots other than military or Foreign Service (Embassy Staff) ballots should be cast. Start the 24 hours at midnight and go through 11:59 PM. If someone is too sick or too infirm to get to a polling place that is simply too bad.
All ballot boxes must be turned in at one time and no counting can be done until the boxes have been delivered to the counting location.
No partial results will be released. The winner will be announced and the totals published at 6:00PM (18 hours later) the day following the election.
Exit polling should be forbidden as it can and has been used to influence the outcomes of elections.
Each precinct manager must turn in their ballot boxes no later than 45 minutes after the polls close and sign an affidavit certifying that there are no undelivered ballot boxes. After that point, no additional ballots can be included in the count or any RECOUNTS.
This would go as far as the voter ID towards eliminating stolen elections
Sounds sensible.
In Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), the Mayor/County Executive insisted that absentee ballot applications be mailed to all Cleveland City registered voters, which was legislatively prohibited by the state, but was upheld by lower court judges for the county "rules".
So Husted made that the "rule" across the state (I think?), and also made the rule that all counties/cities/municipalities have the same early voting opportunities, regardless of whether they were needed.
In the interests of "equal voting access", of course, and rightly so.
Needless to say, all this mailing of absentee ballot applications caused considerable expense. And the extended early voting hours state-wide causes considerable hardship for smaller precincts who don't need them, want them, or have the personnel to keep these polling places open for a month of evenings and week-ends.
Nevertheless, they will comply, so Ohio has more early voting opportunities statewide than 47 other states. Early in-person voting, even under the SCOTUS stay, begins next Tuesday, October 7.
So, why are the lib's whining about only having four weeks instead of five to "get out the vote"? I finally figured this out!
The deadline to register to vote is next MONDAY...and if voting is permitted that one week earlier, "newly found" voters can be registered AND cast their votes at the same time.
I guess the "anti-vote-suppression" activists whining about voter disenfranchisement are not quite worried about it enough to have a "get out the registrations" drive and also go back later for the actual voting drive. Go figure!
But I suppose it depends on who's running the precinct polling place.
And presuming you actually go in person on election day.
Going early to the local Board of Elections (or wherever) or using a mail-in absentee ballot is a whole different thing, I'd imagine.
Tessio says..."hell, he can't do that; that screws up all my arrangements!"
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