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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:36 PM Oct 2012

Despite Court Order, Ohio’s GOP Election Chief Is Still Cutting Back Early Voting



Despite Court Order, Ohio’s GOP Election Chief Is Still Cutting Back Early Voting

Two federal courts said that the Ohio Republican Party’s effort to reduce opportunities to vote early must not go into effect. And the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by Ohio Republican officials to reinstate a GOP-backed law taking away three days of early voting just this week.

Yet despite multiple court defeats, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted is determined to restrict early voting as much as he can get away with. Indeed, Husted openly defied the first court order blocking the Republican restrictions on early voting, although he eventually backed down after a federal judge ordered him to appear in court personally to explain himself. Now, just two days after the conservative Roberts Court turned away Husted’s bid to reinstate the anti-voter law, he is still finding new ways to cut back early voting:

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted swiftly limited early voting hours on those crucial three days to 8 am–2 pm on Saturday, November 3; 1–5 pm on Sunday, November 4; and 8 am–2 pm on Monday, November 5. That means Ohio voters will have a total of only sixteen hours to cast a ballot during those three days. And before the weekend before the election, Ohio voters will still not be able to cast a ballot in-person on nights or weekends.

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/18/1038521/despite-court-order-ohios-gop-election-chief-is-still-cutting-back-early-voting/




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Despite Court Order, Ohio’s GOP Election Chief Is Still Cutting Back Early Voting (Original Post) Tx4obama Oct 2012 OP
This guy is working hard for GOP. LisaL Oct 2012 #1
And let us hope that he is working hard in an orange jumpsuit Mutiny In Heaven Oct 2012 #3
Step two: reduce the available voting machines and poll workers on those days arcane1 Oct 2012 #2
They're going to have to start putting these people in jail dorkzilla Oct 2012 #4
Can he be charged with contempt? I sure have a lot of contempt for him still_one Oct 2012 #5
Someones COULD try to get him OUT of that job, elleng Oct 2012 #6
Kasich is turning the Ohio Statehouse into a crime syndicate JohnnyRingo Oct 2012 #7
Makes sense. Without Ohio they're fucked budkin Oct 2012 #8
Arrest this guy for breaking the laws! Kteachums Oct 2012 #9
Send in the National Guard. nt Comrade_McKenzie Oct 2012 #10
Grounds for impeachment. Get this asshole out of office, Ohio. tarheelsunc Oct 2012 #11
Contempt of Court AndyTiedye Oct 2012 #12

Mutiny In Heaven

(550 posts)
3. And let us hope that he is working hard in an orange jumpsuit
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:41 PM
Oct 2012

sooner rather than later.

Seriously though, even if one were inclined to agree with everything the GOP espouse, if you value democracy and the will of the people to determine who leads the country, it would be impossible to vote for them. Impossible.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
2. Step two: reduce the available voting machines and poll workers on those days
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:39 PM
Oct 2012

Thus forcing people to wait in line for hours, only to have the polls close while they are still in line

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
4. They're going to have to start putting these people in jail
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:43 PM
Oct 2012

They're ignoring court orders...if you or I did that, what do you think they'd do? They'd hold us in contempt. Just like we hold the GOP.

elleng

(130,939 posts)
6. Someones COULD try to get him OUT of that job,
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:47 PM
Oct 2012

mandate that he be replaced. Tough sell.

In a popular quotation, President Andrew Jackson is supposed to have said: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!". This derives from Jackson's consideration on the case in a letter to John Coffee, "...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate," (that is, the Court's opinion was moot because it had no power to enforce its edict).[1]

The ruling in Worcester ordered that Worcester be freed; Georgia complied after several months. In 1833, the newly elected governor, Wilson Lumpkin, offered to pardon Worcester and Butler if they ceased their activities among the Cherokee. The two complied and were freed (under the authority of a January 14, 1833 general proclamation, not a formal pardon);[2] they never returned to Cherokee lands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia

JohnnyRingo

(18,635 posts)
7. Kasich is turning the Ohio Statehouse into a crime syndicate
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:02 PM
Oct 2012

They operate above the law and use strong arm tactics to achieve their goal of power consolidation.

It's clear that the GOP came down hard on Kasich, telling him he has to swing Ohio for Romney, no matter what he has to do.

AndyTiedye

(23,500 posts)
12. Contempt of Court
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:59 PM
Oct 2012

The judge should find him in contempt of court and put him in the pokey until after the election.
If he is at large, he will very likely do something like this:

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