Early Voting Begins in OH; GOP Challenges same day registration

[Wretched Excess]

the election has already begun in one of the 4 or 5 states that wil decide the election.

Early Voting Begins in Ohio

CLEVELAND  Voters in this crucial swing state began casting absentee ballots Tuesday, a day after state and federal courts upheld a disputed early voting law.

Five people were waiting at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections when doors opened at 8:30 a.m. Two in line said they were voting for Barack Obama, including John Fuller, 73, a retired hospital orderly from Cleveland.

Fuller said voting early would allow him to work on Election Day helping others get out and vote.

Election officials around Ohio were preparing for a rush of early voting Tuesday, the first day absentee ballots are accepted in advance of the Nov. 4 presidential election.

The outcome of the court battles is likely to benefit Democrats in a state that narrowly awarded President Bush re-election in 2004.

Obama's campaign has organized car pools beginning Tuesday from college campuses to early voting sites.

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meanwhile, the GOP is appealing the ruling allowing same day registration.

GOP goes to court over early voting in Ohio

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Ohio Republican Party on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to stop same-day registering and voting in the state.
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The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati should either stop same-day voting or at least require the state’s top elections official to separate those ballots so they can be verified, the GOP said in court papers.

Republicans argue that the inability to verify the registration of new voters who cast absentee ballots between Tuesday and Oct. 6 will lead to voter fraud.

State and federal courts on Monday upheld same-day registering and voting.
A message seeking comment was left at Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner’s office, which oversees elections in Ohio.

Brunner previously has instructed county election officials to segregate the ballots cast by those who register on the same day and verify the registration information before those ballots are counted on Nov. 4.

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[DumbAss Tanker]

...Visions of ACORN 'Volunteers' with wads of voter registration cards in one hand and wads of premarked absentee ballots in the other hand come to mind...

 

[Wretched Excess]

...Visions of ACORN 'Volunteers' with wads of voter registration cards in one hand and wads of premarked absentee ballots in the other hand come to mind...

 

absolutely.  if the same day registration ballots are thrown in with the election day ballots, it would be impossible to ever sort out. 

[CharlesD]

I live in Ohio and have already filled out my absentee ballot because I'm on the road all the time.  I'm waiting a bit to mail it in though because I like voting in person.  It "feels" more patriotic. 

Anyway, this same day stuff worries me.  You ever wonder why every time an effort is made to enact measures to verify the validity of every vote you start hearing cries of disenfranchisement from the left?  I had a friend tell me a story of being downright accosted by an ACORN person in Cincinnati the other day.  This election has me really concerned for some reason.

[Wretched Excess]

I live in Ohio and have already filled out my absentee ballot because I'm on the road all the time.  I'm waiting a bit to mail it in though because I like voting in person.  It "feels" more patriotic. 

Anyway, this same day stuff worries me.  You ever wonder why every time an effort is made to enact measures to verify the validity of every vote you start hearing cries of disenfranchisement from the left?  I had a friend tell me a story of being downright accosted by an ACORN person in Cincinnati the other day.  This election has me really concerned for some reason.

they aren't even provisional ballots.  they're just ballots.  from that I infer that there won't be any further scrutinizing of them once they are cast . . . .  this is begging for fraud.

[Tess Anderson]

This is an integral part of Barack Hussein Obama's plan to *win* - I don't know the current status of the situation, but the GOP in Ohio are trying to stop this instant reg n' vote. The left's obsession with the entire state of Ohio continues, and questionable voting practices continue:

CLEVELAND -- A 5 On Your Side investigation confirmed that Cuyahoga County mailed tens of thousands of vote-by-mail applications to people who no longer live in the county.

The board of elections sent nearly 42,000 absentee ballot applications to voters outside the county, and some worry that it could trigger double voting, reported chief investigator Duane Pohlman.

Um, ya think?

http://www.newsnet5.com/investigations/17584849/detail.html

[thundley4]

How many college students are from out of state, and may vote in the states where they actually live?  Wasn't there a problem  with "snowbirds" voting in Florida and in their home states in the northeast?  It seems like getting these kids in on election fraud is a sure win for the messiah.

[Miss Mia]

I think same day registration is a little funny.  I dunno, maybe it's because I've always lived in Texas and we have to be registered a month beforehand.  That at least gives time for people to check and make sure you are who you say you are. 

But then again, I've been registered to vote since I was 18 and I've always exercised my most excellent right to vote. 

[Hawkgirl]

Well, the republicans lost this one  ....question now is do they bring it the supreme court.