Ohio descends into "calculated chaos"

[BillORightsMan]

Just when you thought it just might be safe to vote in Ohio again...


http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2006/2204">Will a shocking new GOP court victory and Karl Rove's attack on Ohio 2006 doom the Democrats nationwide?
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
October 30, 2006

COLUMBUS---With a major GOP federal court victory, the Ohio 2006 election has descended into the calculated chaos that has become the trademark of a Karl Rove election theft, and that could help keep the Congress in Republican hands nationwide.

Through a complex series of legal maneuvers, and now a shocking new decision from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the GOP has thrown Ohio's entire process of voting and vote counting into serious disarray. The mess is perfectly designed to suppress voter turnout, make election monitoring and a recount impossible, and allow the Republican Party to emerge with a victory despite overwhelming evidence the electorate wants exactly the opposite.

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Instead, Ohio's GOP Attorney General Jim Petro did appeal Marbley's decision. And on Sunday, October 29, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Marbley's suspension of the driver's license number requirement on the absentee ballots, casting the entire process into deep confusion.

This ruling means that county boards of election that were telling voters they did not have to include the drivers license number on their absentee ballot after Marbley's decision must now resume telling them they must include that number.

The decision sends a strong signal that if Marbley overturns the HB3 voter ID requirements for citizens coming to the polls, that too is likely to be appealed and then overturned by the Court of Appeals.

Indeed, if Marbley throws out the rest of the HB3 after the Wednesday, November 1 hearing, a final ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on all these procedures may not come until within hours of election time.

"Ohio's electoral process is thus once again sinking into a fog of confusion, disenfranchisement and theft perfectly designed to prolong the GOP control of the government. "

We are now SO FUBAR'd in Ohio it is making my head spin like Linda Blair's!

Even though we're seeing reports all over about how BAD the machines are, what is quietly being "pushed" on us are story lines laying doubt to a huge dem win, most notably the Chavez-Sequioa "alleged ties".

Wasserman and Fitrakis summed it up:
Who will do what about it, and when?

:patriot:

We'll know more on Wed Nov 1 when Marbley rules on ELection Day Voter ID.

[WCGreen]

1. That is why I told everyone I know to enter their DL or the

last four numbers of their SS where they should have...

[seriousstan]

3. No shit. Following the rules, when possible, is always the most

expedient way.

[seriousstan]

2. So is Fitrakis enabling this? What is his take?

[AndyTiedye]

4. Can We Still Take The House if we Lose Everything in Ohio?

Why is it coming down to Ohio AGAIN? :grr:

[WCGreen]

6. No....we need the four seats that are going to turn in Ohio....

[AndyTiedye]

7. Blackwell's Dirty Tricks Are Going to Cost Us At Least 100,000 Votes in Ohio…

…just from the voter purges and the ID BS alone.
That's before he starts changing the numbers.

[WCGreen]

8. I wouldn't go that far....

But the change in rules in the Absentee Ballots that went out after the first ruling and now are changed back to the original way will cause a problem in verification....

[kster]

5. KICK N RECOMMENDED.....nt