Ohio Provisional Ballot Ruling Reversed

AP via Yahoo ^ | October 23, 2004 | AP

[1iron]

DO you "Feel my Pain?" (the 9th Circuit is FReak-quently "short-circuited" ... AMEN)

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I don't believe people voting in two States is a huge problem. It's just not worth the price of the solution which would entail a Federal voter registration database. That should be resisted. Local boards of elections have a vested interest in clean voter rolls for local elections and most States require local election boards to be "multi-partisan".

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

I just received the following email from the Iowa Lawyers for Bush task force. Upon receipt, I fired off a copy of the above referenced article along with the attached email

Iowa Lawyers for Bush - Saturday, October 23, 2004 report

Yesterday the Iowa Attorney General issued an informal advisory opinion in response to the Secretary of State's question regarding the counting of votes on a provisional ballot cast by a voter who is not a resident of the precinct. In brief, the AG opined that the votes for federal offices should be counted on provisional ballots cast by voters if they live anywhere in the county.

We have attached a copy of the AG's opinion and the related newspaper article that ran in today's Des Moines Register. We have also attached a letter that was posted on the Congressional website that the sponsors of the federal HAVA sent to all Secretaries of State yesterday in which they state their opinion that HAVA does not preempt states's precinct-based voting requirements.

Also yesterday the Secretary of State had scheduled a meeting of the Voter Registration Commission for the purpose of adopting an emergency rulemaking to amend the commission's rules relating to mail-in voter registration forms. As you recall, the AG's office earlier in the week had issued another informal advisory opinion that concluded that the citizenship box on the voter registration form does not need to be checked in order for a person to be eligible to vote in the upcoming election.

The emergency rulemaking would make the rules consistent with the AG's opinion (and inconsistent with statutory language that requires the box to be checked.) The meeting was not held because a quorum was not present (the one Republican on the commission was unavailable to meet) and has been rescheduled for Monday.

A press conference involving three Republican legislators was also held yesterday in which they called for the Secretary of State to follow the law and to not change the rules of the game in the middle of an election pointing out that Iowans have been voting since September 23.

MY REPLY

[Copy of AP article}

What is our response in the event that the commission issues rules consistent with this AG opinion?

Is it possible if the commission issues a ruling on Monday consistent with the AG's that we could contest that rule in federal court for inconsistency with HAVA?

What is the time and place of the commission meeting on Monday?

I don't think that we should allow the Democrats to highjack the orderly process of our election here in Iowa. We are already experiencing problems here in Madison Co.

FOLKS we are combining the freerepublic pajama brigades with the Lawyers for Bush task force to open up a can of whoop on the Dems.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

LOOK OUT! What is going on in Ohio is also going on in Iowa. See my post above.

[OldFriend]

If you're a dem you can vote in NY and Floriduh already.

[M Kehoe]

Is there a central clearing thread for all of the rulings, vandalism, intimidation, vote fraud, etc. that one could ping to? Like a bang_list? Heck, its 9 days out and every thing from gun fire, to throwing away military absentee ballots has already occurred.

It appears from the abundance of anecdotal evidence that the liberals/socialists/democRATs are going over the edge. I pray they council good sense among themselves.

5.56mm

[Cold Heat]

Absolutely! There is no way to tell if someone voted in multiple precincts in any coordinated or effective way without making sure they vote at the assigned precinct.

Sure, they could investigate every ballot, but it would take until 2006 to get the result!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Yes, and I am so glad I don't live in the 9th Circuit!

Don't rub it in punk. LOL

[Halls]

YYYIIIPPPEEEEE!!!!

[TSgt]

Is that real?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Another weirdly brazen 'Rat attempt at election stealing, pimp-slapped.

Neener-neener-neener. :)

[MichelleWSC]

OMG...is that Kerry with Ming the Merciless LOL

[conservativeinferno]

We won with FL and OH. Any word from Michigan yet if they are going to get their provisional ballot decision reversed?

[shield]

KNOCK THOSE CHEATERS DOWN AS FAST AS YOU CAN....;o)

[MichelleWSC]

"Sounds good, but if the RATS are half smart (I know that's giving them a lot) they would have registered in different precincts to pull off the fraud."


---If they were to allow the provisional ballots then I could live in x district and register in y and z zone under a different name get ab absentee ballot for my zone x and go to y and z on Nov 2 and vote 3 times.

And it would be easier for women to do this than men because it's not unusual for women to have several last names.

[rwfromkansas]

I will eat my own vomit if the SCOTUS overturns this one.

[AmericanMade1776]

Thank you God!

[Republican Wildcat]

One major fraud factory is shut down...but there are others.

[Txsleuth]

The dems have been plotting this for four years, the have figured every way to cheat there is. I won't be surprised if Kerry wins.

[Constitution1st]

Well we moved to Ohio 15 years ago, and I agree. I like Blackwell, and would vote him into the Governor's seat over Taft ANYday of the week! I hear that even the president does not want to be seen anywhere near Taft. Taft is a loser.