Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Chi-Town-Style Politics ... In Ohio (updated)

So, it seems that there is word coming out of, surprise, surprise, the battleground state of Ohio, that their early voting system has not been properly meeting requirements as to who can officially vote, and also has a conflict in the required time to be eligible to vote. So, this potentially means those who are underage, illegal, or a convicted felon, may be able to cast their vote for who they’d like to see as the next President.

The issue is that the new Ohio system, which was created about three years ago, allows anyone to register between September 30 and October 6, 2008, and at the same time, it allows them to cast their ballot. This seems to be in conflict with the state requirement that people must be registered at least 30 days, mainly to confirm eligibility for voting, before being able to, you know, actually vote. Yet, if the vote is already cast, how do they confirm it was an eligible vote? And then how would Ohio officials even track down an absentee vote out of the many I’m sure they have received, if they confirm votes were illegally made? What’s going to keep them from simply counting them all, and then using the excuse that they had to count them, to ‘ensure civil liberties were protected’? Or simply from disgruntled Democrats that are so very willing to point the finger and claim “stolen election” after the Florida debacle?

Now, I’m not at all a conspiracy theorist, but I’m also not easily taken, and this new system that Ohio has seems to be a loophole-laden disaster waiting to happen. We’ll have to see what comes of it, if anything, before the election, less than a month away.

And who said this kinda stuff only happens in Chi-Town?



Update 1:

So it seems that the Chicago-style have come with "underwhelming result."

Story here.

Early vote fail(fraud), anyone?



JM
Lead/Founding Author
The Conservative Column

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