The Obama campaign filed a lawsuit way back when, like last month or something, to claim that it was unconstitutional for Ohio to allow military voters early voting time in the three days before the election without extending the same time to all Ohio voters. Mitt Romney predictably lied about it, because the only things that come out of Mitt Romney’s mouth are nouns, verbs, and lies about the nouns and verbs he just used.
A federal district court judge ruled today that everyone in Ohio gets to vote the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before the election. YAY VOTING (BUT NOT FOR THE BLACK GUY, OKAY?)
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that in-person early voting IS RESTORED on the three days immediately preceding Election Day for all eligible Ohio voters. And specifically, for the purposes of the 2012 General Election, this Order restores in-person early voting to all eligible Ohio voters on Saturday, November 3, 2012; Sunday, November 4, 2012; and Monday, November 5, 2012. This Court anticipates that Defendant Secretary of State will direct all Ohio elections boards to maintain a specific, consistent schedule on those three days, in keeping with his earlier directive that only by doing so can he ensure that Ohio’s election process is “uniform, accessible for all, fair, and secure.”
Interestingly, the Ohio Secretary of State tried to abolish all weekend voting, because fuck the troops in their well-muscled, tanned…be right back.
Phew. Yeah, anyway, because some negro-heavy counties got uppity, the SoS barred all weekend voting, which is now back on the last weekend before the election, because Ohio also argued that the weekend voting was absolutely necessary for some people until it wasn’t. This fight is not over, though, because it is now an almost certainty that Ohio will just burn all the voting machines but mysteriously find 900,000 ballots for Mitt Romney that survived the simultaneous 88-county blaze.
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Who runs the board of elections in Ohio Boss Hogg?
No, a guy that Boss Hogg considers to be a bit too crooked.
Pretty much.
No worries. Mitt Romney has friends who own companies that make electronic voting machines.
Yep, that's plan B.
Electronic voting machines are people, too, my friend
He'll even calculate the votes by clustering with the other voting machines.
because the only things that come out of Mitt Romney’s mouth are nouns, verbs, and lies about the nouns and verbs he just used.
Well, that's because his program was written by Diebold.
Republicans are urged to bring peanuts to the polls to throw.
I doubt that guy was legit, Republicans would let animals go hungry – if it weren't for Newt Gingrich.
The troops should get first crack at everything, just like in Sparta.
Helot libel?
Let every un-burned vote count. Ohio has just the right hi-ness in the middle and roundness on both ends.
But if we allow early voting, how can we possibly prevent voter fraud?
Good point.
I know! Make everyone vote twice. If the votes don't match, you can toss them out!
Actually, if we allow ANY voting, how can we possibly prevent voter fraud?
A. Hitler
Amusingly, the court’s opinion relies on the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Bush v. Gore to reach this holding, citing Bush‘s statement that “[h]aving once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another.”
Irony lives after all…
But it wasn't precedent! It wasn't supposed to be mentioned, ever again!
That citation to Bush v. Gore makes me think either there is a god or the judge who wrote the opinion has one wicked sense of irony, and maybe both.
I think the proper interpretation is : Suck it, Scalia!
Get over it, Scalia!
Well played, sir.
Surely some company Bain that bought and then sent to China is busy at this moment printing up Romney ballots. If not, time's a wastin'.
If there's one thing computers have taught me, it's that ink isn't cheap.
Ah, Diebold.
"Be Diebold, and mighty forces will come to your aid"
Diebold's latest software release makes all these voter suppression tricks obsolete.
Must be made in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. They count their ballots so well.
One for the GOP, one in the trash, two for the GOP, three in the trash…
Vote early , often, and electronically!
With the new Diebold software, you don't even have to bother to do the "vote" part – the programming does it for you!
int i; for(i = 0; i < 100; ++i) vote(Romney, Ryan);
"In Soviet Russia…"
"This Court anticipates that Defendant Secretary of State will direct all Ohio elections boards to maintain a specific, consistent schedule on those three days…"
This Court is an optimist, I see. This Commenter anticipates that Defendant Secretary of State will issue no such directive.
Looks like the New Black Panthers will be getting some sweet sweet overtime.
Jerbs, jerbs, jerbs.
Both of them?
Why vote at all, isn't it Mitt's time?
Let's make America the new Downton Abbey.
Ok, but only if Mittens is the gamy legged Bates.
No, Bates is a nice guy!! Mitt gets to be the sneaky footman.
Good news: Early voting was restored.
Bad news: All the voting machines are at 123 Fake Street.
True story- I had a friend in Cleveland when I was in grad school- she lived on Random Road. The directions to her party ended with "Turn left at Random"
A teacher at a neighbouring school lived at 69 Head Street. No lie.
Say no more!
No foolin', the main street in the suburban Detroit city of Troy is Big Beaver Road, and it's freeway exit is 69, and the city hall is ringed with decorative stone beavers.
Where they will burn all the voting machines.
Inflammable means flammable? Ugh, what a country!
Humanity invented written law to restrain thuggish fucks like today's Repukes. It occasionally even works. Hurrah for that judge.
And eventually end up in front of the Roberts court. Good thing they can be counted on to consistently uphold the law. Wait, what?
Dude, you're harshing my 'equal justice under law' fantasies!
"this Order restores in-person early voting to all eligible Ohio voters on Saturday, November 3, 2012; Sunday, November 4, 2012; and Monday, November 5, 2012. "
"Black folks, however, can do their early voting on the weekend of November 10th, 11th, and 12th."
But if they can't be trusted to vote Republican why should they be allowed to vote at all?
Hereinafter referred to as "legitimate voting"- Todd Akins
Kris K. Kobach, is that you?
Is anyone else concerned that Staples got the job of printing the ballots?
If they wanted the fetish vote they could have gone with Kinkos.
They were all tied up.
The GOP really doesn't like the right to vote.
Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?
I heard on Glennnn Beck, though, that the voting machines in white precincts were going to be just new black panther party members in disguise that will just whack whitey on the head with a Koran when they try to vote. Why does Obama hate freedom?
THE JUDICIARY IS IN THE TANK!
Diebold has just received a P.O. from the Mitt for El Jefe campaign ordering the latest upload the current upgrades to bias voting machines.
I find it interesting that different Federal judges in different judicial districts have ruled this week that Texas and Ohio cannot enact laws that screw the rights of voters. If anything is learned from this election it is the Citizen United vs. FEC is one fucked up law and it's got to be changed.
Fox Breaking: Why won't Obama let our Patriotic Men and Women in Uniform vote?
Vote Early, Vote Often!
Vote Oily! Vote Romney!
Spend Early, Spend Often!
But if you allow people to vote, how will Republicans win?
This is why god made super pacs
I'm thrilled that that three-judge panel in Washington DC also told Texas to fuck off and stop being such racist wads of rancid jizz.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-secu…
I don't understand.
Am I allowed to view this as good news, or do I just have to start worrying about rigged voting machines immediately?
You have thirty seconds, starting……nnnnnnnnnnnnnnow.
There is no reason to worry about rigged voting machines. The Republicans have already taken care of that.
You're not helping! Don't make me raise my eyebrow.
Northern Ohio is a haven for tree hugging commie hippie queers who do vote. I was in grad school there and have friends who still are. Fear not! This is a Good Thing(tm)
Just imagine if we made voting a legitimate function of government instead of something conducted by party
hacksloyalists for nominal compensation. Just imagine if we had uniform standards nationwide for who can vote and who can't. Just imagine if we had a reliable identity verification system nationwide, instead of leaving it to Patty and Selma to decide who can vote and who can get on airplane on 9/11.Christ, it sounds like Europe! Who'd want that?
(Raises hand)
OT From US magazine (where I get all my political news):
"More Americans watched TLC's controversial reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo on Wednesday night than the Republican National Convention."
Maybe those people thought they were watching the convention.
Honey Boo Boo/Snooki 2016!
Well now that Jersey Shore has been cancelled maybe Snooki will be making her way into politics.
Her platform — free tanning and breast augmentation for everyone.
At least Honey Boo Boo doesn't talk to chairs and lie constantly.
Okay, I'm assuming here, but I feel pretty safe betting that a trailer-born-and-bred six-year-old has more sanity, class and honesty than the few thousand most powerful Republicans in the country.
Romney is gonna need Honey Boo Boo's endorsement if he is going to win this thing.
I watched Air Chair Boo Boo
arrest them for VWB (voting while black)
This is why lawyers shouldn't be president.
Send in O'Keefe!
Karl Rove just added that federal district court judge to his hit list. Oh, and Karl would like you to send him some more money. It costs money to buy guns, bullets, rope, cement blocks, tarp, duct tape, and the silence of local law enforcement.
But if everyone is allowed to vote early how will our men and women in uniform feel special?
Fuck it, they're heroes already. What more do they want?
Health insurance for life?
mental health care?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/va-mental-…
PTSD and a higher chance of being homeless than the general population?
This is good news for Diebold!
Voting is for suckers.
Ohio in 2004 they totally screwed with the votes so Bush would win. Not enough ballots in the urban and campus precincts, not enough machines, long lines, late night, people got discouraged and went home without voting.
I really hope this early voting will make that impossible. Which only leaves Diebold. Sigh.
Rilly. I moved from Ohio to Florida in oct 2000, so I saw that disaster. In 2004 I hoped against hope that my old county, cuyahoga, could pull it out, but alas not, because of the above :(
Black, um, Urban voters and Romney's losing,
We've desperate for something.
This summer I hear the crying,
No voting in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Urbans are voting us out
(Libs say) Should have been done long ago.
What if you hate them
And found them running the place
How can you serve the rich, you know?
Republicans! Dontcha just love 'em?
Let the poorz vote? Not a good idea.
Great news guys! Diebold's home office is in Ohio, so you know Romney's victory in Oho is safe with them…
No snark, just smiling because at least there's a couple of judges out there who aren't bat shit insane.
I hate these fuckers every day of the week.
Show me in the Constitution where it tells you you get to vote!
Someday they'll run out of actual shit like this to throw at the democratic process and resort to throwing each other. They can't win fair and square so they have to fix the system to their own advantage. The thing is, all their devious little schemes — The K Street Project and the Permanent Majority, the US Attorney meddling, etc. — eventually blow up in their faces or are exposed. Meanwhile they're desperately trying to figure out how to undo 50 years of demonizing Blacks and 30 years of demonizing Latinos. Too late, you self-defeating Fucks. The GOP convention looked like the audience of The Lawrence Welk show. Not everyone is 73 and white and not everyone who's 73 and white is a paranoid, selfish bigot. Time is not on their side.
Notice how every speaker the last three days gave a shout-out to the Tea Party? I didn't either.
This nation needs federal election reform like crazy, and no one seems to care. I mean, simple things like a voting holiday/weekend elections, alone, would be a huge improvement, as would standardizing equipment and such.
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