Petition AGAINST Ohio HB 3-VOTER DISCRIMATION BILL

[mod mom]

here is a snip from a DFA email:

members of Central Ohio Democracy for America Meetup:

PLEASE JOIN DEMOCRATIC STATEWIDE CANDIDATES AND OTHER
PROGRESSIVE GROUPS IN OPPOSITION TO VOTER DISCRIMINATION BILL
Banding together out of concern over voter suppression, Ohio
Democratic candidates for statewide office urged the Ohio
Senate today to vote down a bill with voter suppression
provisions such as stringent ID requirements.

Among the candidates joining together in protest of the bill’s
provisions are Major Paul Hackett and Rep. Sherrod Brown in the
U.S. Senate race; Rep. Ted Strickland in the Ohio Gubernatorial
race; Subodh Chandra and St. Sen. Marc Dann in the Ohio
Attorney General’s race; and Jennifer Brunner in the Ohio
Secretary of State race.

Ms. Brunner initiated an online petition that has generated
hundreds of signatures since Thursday night asking the Ohio
Senate to reconsider provisions of H.B. 3.

SIGN THE PETITION
AGAINST VOTER DISCRIMINATION
http://www.jenniferbrunner.com/petition.asp
Among the concerns about the bill are requirements for ID to be
shown at the polls that matches residency. This has led to
concerns over:
-Disabled voter who can’t sign their own name has to execute a
power of attorney in order to vote
-Every time you vote you must have an i.d. on hand
-The i.d. requirement must have your current address, if not
you have to cast a provisional ballot
-Many college identification cards don’t list an address
-Makes it harder to get initiatives on the ballot by increasing
the signature requirement to file a petition
-There is not a clear, uniform standard for counting
provisional ballots in Ohio

Here is a sad commentary of just how this bill will effect low income/homeless voters:

I work with homeless and low income people at Trinity
Church on Capital Square. My main mission is to help people get ID's. On
Dec. 1 I had almost $400 to assist with ID's at $8.50 a crack. By the
next morning my funds were gone and I have turned away untold #s of
people since then who are in need of an ID to get services. When I heard
about the voting ID debacle I knew it was to eliminate the vote of poor
people. One more way to disenfranchise them. Makes me sick.
Diane

[AuntPatsy]

1. Nominated so more people are aware, saw it earlier...

[mod mom]

2. I posted it here because it will draw much more attention than on election

reform forums. It is really important that people take notice of just what they are doing. THEY WOULDN'T NEED TO TAKE THESE DRASTIC MEASURES IF THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD WIN BASED ON THEIR MERITS!

[AuntPatsy]

3. I agree, I clicked on the first page but had a feeling it would

pass by, glad you linked it on this forum as well, it seems this one gets more hits...

[AndyTiedye]

4. K/R makes it 5.

:kick:

[texpatriot2004]

5. K & R nm

[texpatriot2004]

6. Oh my, we are asking Taft? Mr. Corrupt to his Core Taft? nm

[understandinglife]

7. Done and Recommended. My "Dear Gov. Dean -- ..." letter for today ...

... 12 December 2005, will address this issue and more. HB3 must not become law.

Should have it posted by 9pm EST.


Peace.

[roseBudd]

8. Check out the bus stops in any largecity in OH, this is about preventing

African Americans from voting. They are

A. much more more likely to not own a car
B. much more likely to be low income
C. much more likely to move frequently
D. much more likely to be robbed, burglarized, evicted, etc.


It is disheartening enough that low income people are least likely toparticipate in elections because they do not perceive voting as making a difference in their circumstances. And now this.

[mod mom]

10. and low income people and students. I wish the international press would

pick up on this story and shame the Republicans into defeating this bill. It is un-American( in my sense of Un-American, at least).

Quick story to show those outside Ohio what we are up against in the Ohio Senate: Last spring while I was doing some election reform lobbying with Commoncause at the Ohio Statehouse, I met with Ohio State Senator Jeffry Armbruster R-Lorain. Our mission was to attempt to persuade change in how provisional votes are counted in Ohio. Sen Armbruster told me that if I was truly interested in election reform, then I would be advocating breath analyzer tests for voters because the real election fraud was Democrats pulling drunks out of bars on election day to vote.

:argh:

[roseBudd]

11. My cousin is a drunk and if she rides a bus to the polls on election

day to vote that is her right. Nobody is pulling people out of bars to vote. What an ass.

[mod mom]

12. LMAO!

[Zodiak]

9. Institutionalized racism

A governor with a 3% (yes, that is not a typo) gets to pass whatever measure he wants through his Republican cronies. All the while this racism is egged on by the ultimate Uncle Tom, Ken Blackwell.

In my opinion, this sort of political move is only possible when the pols are removed from the electorate by rampant voting fraud. It is not prima facia evidence, but it certainly is another brick in the pile.

[stickdog]

13. K &R (nt)