Not to mention his cut back in Early Voting hours and resources, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has now just implemented some brand new Vote-Voiding rules, completely contrary to recent Court rulings ....
Last-Minute Ohio Directive Could Trash Legal Votes And Swing The Election
by Judd Legum, thinkprogress.org -- Nov 3, 2012 at 4:10 pm
A last-minute directive issued by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) could invalidate legal provisional ballots. Ohio is widely viewed as the most critical state for both presidential campaigns and -- with some polls showing a close race -- the 11th-hour move could swing the entire election.
The directive, issued Friday, lays out the requirements for submitting a provisional ballot. The directive includes a form which puts the burden on the voter to correctly record the form of ID provided to election officials. Husted also instructed election officials that if the form is not filled out correctly by a voter, the ballot should not be counted.
Watch out for those
"Or's" people. That usually means "choose one only."
But how would we know?
In Husted's verification-land, providing TOO MANY forms of ID just might get your Vote dis-qualified?
But how would we know? ... Will Husted give the People THE VERY SAME instructions he is giving the Validators?
Gotcha! You forget to cross that t ...
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The last-minute directive changes this and switches the burden to the voter, greatly increasing the chances that legal provisional ballots will be discarded.
The court gave Husted until Monday to respond to the lawsuit and indicated it will resolve the dispute before provisional ballots are counted on November 17.
Voting is NOT suppose to be an Obstacle course.
Voting is supposed to be a basic Right in a Democracy.
It is up to WE the People, to demand that basic Right -- without last minute Obstacles being thrown in our way. Real life obstacles like they have done in certain Early Voting counties in Florida -- leading to 9 hour waits -- just to Vote.
It is up to WE the People to Vote out the Republican Legislatures who design and implement these Obstacles to the People's Democracy. It belongs to ALL THE PEOPLE.
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