Rush Limbaugh conspires and this is what happens....

[samplegirl]

Rush Limbaugh must be stopped!!!!!!!!
Ohio's revised election code includes an election falsification clause (Revised Code 3513.20), which says that if a voter who changes parties is challenged by poll workers as to the sincerity of his change of heart and also signs an affidavit stating that he supports the principles of the party to which he's changing -- when in fact he doesn't support them -- then he would be committing election falsification. Election falsification is a felony that is punishable by six to twelve months in jail and a $2,500 fine.

It's clear that cross-over voting occurred in large numbers in Ohio this year. The Ohio secretary of state's office doesn't have statistics yet on how many voters crossed parties in the primary (it's still compiling them), but the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that in Cuyahoga County alone, the state's largest county, at least 16,000 Republicans switched parties for the primary.

[bryant69]

1. It'll be interesting to see what happens

Be nice if there were some prosecutions, but i doubt it.

Bryant
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[New Dawn]

2. Good post, something needs to be done to stop those Limbaugh voters!

[samplegirl]

3. Hillary & Obama

need to expose Limbaugh in interviews.

[buff2]

4. This is what will happen in the General Election

IF Obama is the nominee.BO will lose and we will be stuck with McLame.

[eallen]

5. That law would never pass Constitutional muster. The ACLU would chew it up & spit it out....

Like a parrot on a nut. Our electoral problems are not solved by trying to tighten laws that enforce party discipline. Just the opposite. We should be working to weakening the two-party system, not strengthening. The kinds of reform we need are preference voting, proportional representation, etc.

:hippie:

[hifalutin]

6. One can only hope but

I won't hold my breath.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. You said it!

[Selatius]

14. That'll not likely to happen in lifetimes. Parties don't vote for reforms that weaken their grip.

The only way the Democratic Party would ever push through reforms like proportional representation or run-off voting like what France uses or some other system like the German federated model is if the Party was forced to pass the reforms. The Republican Party would be even less likely to introduce such reforms.

You'd need a constitutional amendment, which would likely be shot down anyway by a minority of conservatives.

If people were liberated to vote for a third party without fear of electoral disaster like Bush v. Gore, the Democratic Party would lose many members overnight to the Greens and new parties like Labor, Social Democrats, various democratic socialist parties, Christian Democrats, etc. They know this, and they don't want that.

Edited for grammar.

[Canuckistanian]

7. Yeah! Finally some justice!

Now all that has to happen is for the Justice Department to... press.. charges.

Never mind.

[AZ Criminal JD]

9. Justice Department would have nothing to do with it.

These are state laws and any action taken would be by the state.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Ah, yes

But then, why were US attorneys fired for NOT prosecuting so-called "voter frauds"?

Were they supposed to be prosecuting state crimes?

[AZ Criminal JD]

12. I don't know the facts of the "voter frauds" but they probably had something to do with illegals.

That would be a federal crime. But the specific laws cited in the OP are state laws.

[Selatius]

15. It's a dual jurisdiction issue. Civil Rights Division inside the DoJ likely has jurisdiction here.

Any state level law that may infringe on a citizen's right to vote or express himself or herself is automatically a civil rights issue. The DoJ would be well within its power to step in if it so exercises the discretion.

If Ohio passes the law, you can bet it would raise civil rights issues.

[DCKit]

11. It'd be a hoot if the Republics went after their own for the payoff.

$40 million is a bundle to those who so willingly eat their own for far, far less.

[L. Coyote]

13. Can DEMs sue Rush and the network he works for? Take their money for

conspiracy to disrupt a democratic process and do harm by illegal means. I think, in liability law, when harm is caused in the act of a crime or while violating the code of federal regulations, there is not much of a defense available!

Hey Rush, did you just give us the key to your bank? :rofl:

[Thepricebreaker]

16. You cant investigate the "soul" of a voter if they switch parties.. This is a dead issue..

How do you do such a thing? Give each voter a polygraph?

Every voter will simply say.. yes.. i love hillary or whatever.. This will lead to nothing, and trust me.. Rush is laughing his ass off and wants all this publicity..

[Initech]

17. Rush should have been kicked off the air about 1,000 times by now.