Reply #24: This is how I replied for anyone who is interested....

[mordarlar]

brainless woman made me stay up all night again.


Again ******, please post LINKS. You have seen most of this before. Obviously it does not concern you, or you simply do not read it. I am posting this for people who are unaware that it was more then simply standing in the rain for a few hours.


>>>If Mr. Blackwell continues with this pre-emptive purge, he will be in direct violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was passed with the express purpose of preventing exactly this kind of hide-the-ball, change-the-rules shenanigans that the "ins" use to keep the "outs" from getting to the polls. 42 U.S.C. §1971(a)(2)(B) provides that "o person acting under color of law" may deny a person the right to vote "because of an error or omission on any . . . paper relating to any . . . registration . . . if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such individual is qualified under State law to vote in such election." Filling out a form on the wrong kind of paper is precisely the kind of "error" that "is not material" to determining whether a person is qualified to vote. It has nothing to do with the person's age, residence, or status as a convicted felon. An underweight registration form cannot be used to deny the right to vote.<<

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/eligibility_rules08.html


>>>II. VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS – PAPERWEIGHT

We have received numerous questions concerning the paperweight of the Ohio voter registration form. The form prescribed by the Secretary of State must be printed on white, uncoated paper of not less than 80 lb. text weight. Any Ohio form not printed on this minimum paperweight is considered to be an application for a registration form. Your board should mail the appropriate form to the person listed on the application.

However, this office cannot dictate the paperweight of the federally prescribed voter registrations forms:<\i> the on-line Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) and the “national” form prescribed by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC). Both of those forms may be printed on regular weight (e.g. 20 lb) white paper.

If you have any questions on this directive, please call my Elections Division at 614-466-2585.

Sincerely,

J. Kenneth Blackwell<<<


http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/news/release/09-09-04.htm

http://www.dispatch.com/election/election-local.php?story=dispatch/2004/10/24/20041024-A1-02.html

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/states/oh1104pre.html


>>>Published Sunday, October 24, 2004
Appeals Court Rules On Provisional Ballots

By JOE KAY
The Associated Press

CINCINNATI -- A federal appeals court ruled Saturday that provisional ballots Ohio voters cast outside their own precincts should not be counted, throwing out a lower-court decision that said such ballots are valid as long as they are cast in the correct county.

The ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals supports an order issued by Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. Democrats contend the Republican official's rules are too restrictive and allege they are intended to suppress the vote.<<<

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041024/NEWS/410240447/-1/ELECTIONS20

A new rule for counting provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio was implemented on Tuesday, November 9 at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon, issued by blackwell that changed the rules of acceptable ballot proceedure on election day. See the document.

http://www.freepress.org/images/columns/lovegren_docs.pdf

The issue of the precincts is bothersome because people were told, sometimes by the board of elections, to go to the WRONG precints. This as you know makes their ballots invalid. There is a reason Ohio had the NATIONS HIGHEST NUMBER OF DISCARDED BALLOTS.

http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/01/images/WhatWentWronginOhio.pdf

The following charts machine allocation on election day. Notice where there is a higher percentage Kerry vote there are ALWAYS LESS MACHINES per no. of voters. Interesting no?






http://copperas.com/machinery/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/30/71935/724

39 machines went unused in Franklin Co.

http://www.votecobb.org/lib/downloads/newsclips/news2004-12-11.pdf

Some counts put it as high as 125

>>>Pacifica reporter Evan Davis reported that a county purchasing official who was on the line with Ward Moving and Storage Company, documented only 2,741 voting machines delivered through the November 2 election day. The county’s own documents reveal that they had 2,866 “Machines Available” on Election Day. This would mean that amid the two to seven hour waits in the inner city of Columbus, at least 125 machines remained unused on Election Day. Ward holds the exclusive three-year contract to deliver voting machines in Franklin County.<<<


Read the following article. They obviously knew there would be a significantly higher turnout then in previous years.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1096191056165960.xml

The following is from MSNBC

>>>In Cleveland, poorly trained poll workers apparently gave faulty instructions to voters that led to the disqualification of thousands of provisional ballots and misdirected several hundred votes to third-party candidates. In Youngstown, 25 electronic machines transferred an unknown number of votes for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to the Bush column.<<<

>>>Franklin County election officials -- evenly split between Republicans and Democrats -- say they allocated machines based on past voting patterns and their best estimate of where more were needed. But they acknowledge having too few machines to cope with an additional 102,000 registered voters.<<<

>>>Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, who was co-chairman of the Bush campaign in Ohio, decided to strictly interpret a state law governing provisional ballots. He ruled that voters must cast provisional ballots not merely in the county but in the precise precinct where they reside. For cities such as Cleveland and Cincinnati, where officials long accepted provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct, the ruling promised to disqualify many voters. "It is a headache to take those ballots, but the alternative is disenfranchisement," said Michael Vu, director of the Cuyahoga Board of Elections, which includes Cleveland.<<<

>>>On Election Day, more than 5.7 million Ohioans voted, 900,000 more voters than in 2000<<<

>>>Some regular voters filed affidavits stating that their registrations had been expunged. "I'm 52, and I've voted in every single election," Kathy Janoski of Columbus said. "They kept telling me, 'You must be mistaken about your precinct.' I told them this is where I've always voted. I felt like I'd been scrubbed off the rolls."<<<

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/6714782/

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/docs/lowv/doc8g.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._Election_voting_controversies,_Ohio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._Election_voting_controversies,_Ohio#Voting_machines_in_Ohio

http://www.votewatch.us/Members/StevenHertzberg/report.2004-12-15.2641756478/report_contents_file/
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