AlterNet: "The End of Democracy in Ohio" -- WAKE UP AMERICA!

Excerpt:

A law that will make democracy all but moot in Ohio is about to pass the state legislature and to be signed by its Republican governor.

HB3's most publicized provision will require positive identification before casting a vote. But it also opens voter registration activists to partisan prosecution, exempts electronic voting machines from public scrutiny, quintuples the cost of citizen-requested statewide recounts and makes it illegal to challenge a presidential vote count or, indeed, any federal election result in Ohio. When added to the recently passed HB1, which allows campaign financing to be dominated by the wealthy and by corporations, and along with a Rovian wish list of GOP attacks on the ballot box, democracy in Ohio could be all but over.

The GOP is ramming similar bills through state legislatures around the U.S., starting with Georgia and Indiana.


http://www.alternet.org/rights/29292/

n/t

1 human being = 1 economic consumption/production unit

Democracy has entered a managed care facility, that's all. You'll still be able to see democracy from time to time. And democracy will lead a good life in the time remaining to it, surrounded by a selection of its more treasured belongings and mementoes from its freewheeling past. Anything democracy needs will be supplied to it by a round the clock staff of the most competent nurses and orderlies.
You're fretting over nothing!

It's so sickening.

that's why junior and his demented buddies are packing the courts.

themselves against any real vote in the future. Cheating fucks!

and then, when the Republicans can't fathom why 2600% of the votes went to Kevin Mitnick for Governor-- and they're not allowed to challenge the vote-- then maybe they'll fix the problem.

That is a satirical riff and is in no way intended to be an incitement to commit a crime. Nor is it an endorsement of Kevin Mitnick for Governor of Ohio, who as far as I know doesn't live in Ohio and isn't running for public office.

Your satirical remedy cites a much-needed wake-up call for the GOP, as in what goes around comes around, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, fighting fire with fire, and all that.

as part of the fictitious example in my satirical riff.

The League of Women Voters in Ohio (various groups) is skeptical of this report--let's wait before hittin' the streets.