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I wonder how long it will take for the GOP to use this in OH?
http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote
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Cyclist
Peach District (State of Mind)
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berdawn wrote I wonder how long it will take for the GOP to use this in OH?
http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote
I have no response other than 'terrible'!
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jawjack187
Columbus
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Wow.
Oooooooooooh!
We don't give a damn...
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jamesm
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Fortunately, last week the Ohio Secretary of State issued a directive which makes the process of removing voters off the rolls fairly complex.
As of her directive removing someone off the voter rolls requires a hearing. It simply would take weeks to remove even a small quantity of voters that way.
Posted 4 years ago # -
berdawn
near that stretch of N. High Street in the Short North
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jamesm wrote Fortunately, last week the Ohio Secretary of State issued a directive which makes the process of removing voters off the rolls fairly complex.
As of her directive removing someone off the voter rolls requires a hearing. It simply would take weeks to remove even a small quantity of voters that way.
But the "challengers" can still bring them up and individual precincts will still have long lines and long wait times. I know at my precinct, the youngest poll worker was MAYBE 70. I can just imagine how well they would deal with this sort of thing. I hope as many people as possible use early voting.
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Motorist
The Trots
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berdawn wrote
jamesm wrote Fortunately, last week the Ohio Secretary of State issued a directive which makes the process of removing voters off the rolls fairly complex.
As of her directive removing someone off the voter rolls requires a hearing. It simply would take weeks to remove even a small quantity of voters that way.
But the "challengers" can still bring them up and individual precincts will still have long lines and long wait times. I know at my precinct, the youngest poll worker was MAYBE 70. I can just imagine how well they would deal with this sort of thing. I hope as many people as possible use early voting.
Maybe there should be a bigger push on getting young people to volunteer at the polls.
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berdawn
near that stretch of N. High Street in the Short North
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jamesm wrote
Motorist wrote
Maybe there should be a bigger push on getting young people to volunteer at the polls.
There has been. It's still rough going though.
I read an article after the last presidential election about someone's experience with training to be a poll worker and it sounded pretty horrible.
I'm surprised there's not a team of city year or americorps people to do this sort of thing. or maybe 4-H in rural areas?
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jamesm
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berdawn wrote
I'm surprised there's not a team of city year or americorps people to do this sort of thing. or maybe 4-H in rural areas?
It's probably a bit too close to political participation than those groups would be comfortable with.
I loved being a pollworker. I did it happily for several years. Alas, it became more and more complex as time went on...the Help America Vote Act, the new voting machines and the identification laws took a lot of fun out of the process. What was an exciting day of citizen participation became a bad combination of ATM troubleshooter and BMV employee.
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berdawn
near that stretch of N. High Street in the Short North
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cr0m wrote It will never cease to amaze me how calculating politicians have become. We need a 3rd party that can realistically challenge the norm.
It's that "realistically" that's going to doom that for the next 1/2 century or so.
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