Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted adds a step for voters who will cast provisional ballots on Tuesd

[jaysunb]

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Four days before Election Day, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted added a new step for voters who will use a provisional ballot on Tuesday.

Previously, election officials were required to write down the form of ID a voter uses when provisional ballot paperwork is filled out. Voters now will be obligated to write in the information themselves, according to the directive issued late Friday afternoon.

The move contradicts Ohio Revised Code stating that election officials are responsible for recording the information.



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[liberal N proud]

1. More dirty tricks by this paid criminal.

I want to know who is paying him to commit treason, or is just a fool who takes orders without being paid.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Typical GOP tactic. Ignore the law and do what you want.

Partisan hack.

[canuckledragger]

4. That face...it looks so...

...punchable...

[theinquisitivechad]

7. LOL n/t

[mopinko]

23. rape isn't funny. prison rape isn't funny.

this is the anti-lol.

[Kteachums]

26. Probably a "best friend" of one of Romney's sons!

He is an SOS/ Secretary of Suppression!

[sakabatou]

3. AUGH!

[madashelltoo]

5. They will backtrack after election invalidating those votes.

The law will be cited as reason. He knows he can't arbitrarily change the rules without notification. These people are crazy as hell. When they help Mittens steal Ohio and florida, then what? He's still going to lose the election!

[FarPoint]

8. Oh for Chrissake!

This man is delusional...yet in power.

How do we survive?

[Botany]

9. this will be smacked down by a federal court 1st thing monday AM

Husted can not order people to break the law.

But he is a Christian

[chuckstevens]

10. Are you kidding me?

First: He is messing with the voting machines by installing special patches, just like Blackwell did in 2004.
Second: He seems to have "Lost" thousands of voter registration forms.
Third: He is now making provisional ballots more difficult.

WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT, ERIC HOLDER?

If I wrote this as a script, no one would believe it. I don't know why the feds are swarming all over this guys office. How much are the Koch Brothers paying you, Jon Husted?

[defacto7]

17. The feds are in on this more than you think...

They are gathering evidence, setting up a wall of lawyers, they are waiting till they have enough to hit them like a brick. If they were to just jump in and start accusing, fussing, making a scene, they would be shooting themselves in the foot.

The last thing we want now is a scene of parties battling and screaming foul. We would lose credibility and create a raging right wing public. That is what the right wing wants and they aren't going to get it.

Holder is just gathering, waiting and setting the play. And when they are so blatantly guilty, and dirty that the law will stick like tar and feathers... it will be all over.

[silvershadow]

31. Not sure if you are in the know, or just speculating...but I hope you are right. nt

[defacto7]

32. I'm definitly not in the know,

but there have been some interesting articles on DU every day.. here's one from today..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=208319

or original post here..

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4776

It's a good read.. encouraging to say the least. Hopefully informative.

[silvershadow]

33. Thanks you. At least some press. I heard that Alex Wagner had some about this on her show today.

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I'm hoping, with these stories are actually gathering critical steam, and that DOJ will either quickly stop the theft/fraud, or that they have some kind of plan. I don't think this country can survive one more election in dispute.

On edit: Maybe it was Kris Jansing? I just saw her talking about it on Ed's show.

[wordpix]

38. hope you're right b/c these dirty tricks could lose the election for us

[secondwind]

24. The POTUS has 2500 lawyers on the ground in OH

[Shuhered]

11. Infuriating

This is sick----what an asshole.

[radhika]

12. Who is funding Husted's obsessive anti-voter campaigns?

He is not doing it for fun. And he's not doing it without official RNC approval. Some major vig awaits him if Romney can steal OH.

Investigative reporters of the world - puleeze take a look at this...

[wordpix]

39. no doubt Tax Dodge Mitt has Husted in mind for AG - perfect guy for a crooked admin

if he can manage to give Mittwit OH.

[wordpix]

40. Koch Bros, American Xroads, etc, no doubt

[rso]

13. Husted hussle

I do not understand why we have not heard a peep about this from the National or State- level Democratic Party. I would like to think that they know what they are doing, and if they don't seem preoccupied with this, perhaps we should not worry either. But even if it's not going to affect the final democratic victory in Ohio, the Democratic Party should still be publicly hollering about this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. He is so craven he doesn't care what anyone thinks now. He'll be up on charges & drummed out soon.

[LovingA2andMI]

15. Seriously? This is stupid.

Who elected this guy in Ohio?

[inamatteroftime]

16. Eric Holder? Obama Campaign? Anyone on this? nt

[defacto7]

18. You bet they are....

Just watch.

[demgrrrll]

19. Are you at liberty to say how you know? I realize this may be a secret.

[defacto7]

25. No... all hope and a little bit of analysis...

just my opinion...

[Historic NY]

20. Can they file a FEderal injunction ...this guy needs to step aside or disapper in a federal cell.

[Nika]

21. More dirty tricks, why am I not surprised?

[ChristianDemocratMom]

22. so if you're casting a provisional ballot

then you should insist that the election official fill in the information so that your ballot doesn't accidentally go missing, right?

[lsewpershad]

27. When priks

like these be behind bars??????

[SoapBox]

28. What the fucking hell?

...just got around to this story.

What a LOAD of BULLSHIT!

This crap should be illegal.

Once again, the Pukes and Baggers, try to rig the system against American voters.

[alp227]

29. Shouldn't the Tea Party be screaming "BUREAUCRACY! GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE!"

Not if the "BUREAUCRACY! GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE!" will unfairly help 'em "win" elections.

[young_at_heart]

30. It's obvious he is trying to manipulate the vote

Somehow the GOP in Ohio has gotten away with this before---how can anyone find out what goes on in the counting areas?

[blueclown]

34. Hopefully the request for an injunction has already been filed

In federal court.

[inamatteroftime]

35. KICK

[lonestarnot]

36. eeeew. Anon is gona get him.

That pig! They are going to pull every dirty fucking trick possible.

[Maeve]

37. In the interest of fairness

The article has at least one mistake--provisional ballots in Ohio are most likely to be because the voter requested an absentee ballot they didn't send in or they do not have ID that matches the name and/or address in the signature book--not because they are in the wrong voting place. BY LAW you must be in the proper polling precinct according to your current address for the vote to count.

Also, the current provisional ballot envelope is much simpler than the previous one. The idea behind having the voter write down their ID (usually the last four digits of their SS#) is to take the poll worker errors out of the mix--there have been too many provisional ballots rejected because the poll worker messed up the envelope.

And before anyone flames me--yes, Husted has not been on the side of the voter in most of his decisions, he shows every indication of wanting to suppress Democratic votes in favor of Republican votes. However, I don't think all of his decisions have been partisan. I also think Ohio needs a better Secretary of State.