HB 3 election fraud is now the law? Ohio continues it's race to ruin.

"The End of Democracy in Ohio"


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/

REPUBLICANS IN THE LEGISLATURE ON THE RUN FROM THEIR OWN DISASTROUS POLICY DECISIONS

BRUNNER REITERATES CALL ON TAFT TO VETO HOUSE BILL 3

Columbus , Ohio —Jennifer Brunner, Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State, released the following statement regarding the Senate’s changes to House Bill 3.

“Tinkering with bad policy does not make good policy. House Bill 3 is still hurried legislation that the Republicans have used to suppress voter turnout.

“Clearly, the Republicans are feeling the pressure from Ohioans who are angry about this bill. But Ohioans are not fooled by the fact that these incremental changes still will suppress voting in this State.

“It seems that Republican Senators realized that this ill-conceived proposal would disenfranchise even their own voters. The slight changes they made do nothing to eliminate the discriminating effect this bill would have on Ohio ’s voters next year.

“Governor Taft, a former Secretary of State, should veto this bill.”

www.jenniferbrunner.com/petition.asp
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Way to go Jennifer Brunner!

The repugs are afraid of an open and fair vote.

to protest in Senate chamber last week and in the future when it comes up. It is always the same people from CASE, LWV, J30 and Ohio Vigilance. I heard the ODP sent out thousands of emails (I received one) asking for participation, but it appeared to be all familar faces. I wish those outside election reform community would participate in this affront to democracy!

12/13/05
"Ohio Republicans should be ashamed of themselves," Strickland said. "Instead of working in a bipartisan way to protect every Ohioan's right to vote, they're seeking to suppress votes in a power grab to protect their culture of corruption. And let there be no mistake--that is what this bill is all about for Ohio Republicans: power, pure and simple. This voter suppression bill is nothing less than a poll tax and as such is deeply immoral, undemocratic and un-American."

Strickland noted that a similar voter-ID requirement passed in Georgia was recently halted by a federal court, which ruled it was likely tantamount to a poll tax because voters are required to pay fees for required forms of identification.

Following is a link to an article on the Georgia decision: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20051019/localnews/28132.shtml

Following is a link to the court decision: www.acluga.org/briefs/voterID/PIOrder.pdf

I called my rep. Jim Hughes and bitched ..... we all must do the same.

"No public scrutiny of voting machines"

Leon County FL Supervisor of Elections, alleges fraud in 2000 elections.
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<----After watching his computer expert change vote totals this week, Sancho said that he now believes someone on the inside did the same think in Volusia County in 2000.

"Someone with access to the vote center in Volusia County put it on a memory card and uploaded it into the main system," Sancho said-----

http://www.wesh.com/news/5542983/detail.html

Voting machines used in four Central Florida counties might be flawed.

There's new evidence that computer hackers could change election results without anyone knowing about it, WESH 2 News reported.

The supervisor of elections in Tallahassee tested voting machines several times over the last several months, and on Monday, his workers were able to hack into a voting machine and change the outcome. He said that same thing might have happened in Volusia County in 2000.

The big controversy revolves around a little black computer card that is smaller than a floppy disk and bigger than a flash drive. The card is inserted into voting machines that scan paper ballots. The card serves as the machine's electronic brain.>

Any bets when the "liberal media" will get on this story? Bet ya they will be all over this like white on rice.
What do you think front page of the NY Times? Lead story on CBS? Fox news will send out a factor investigation
to look into this? But then again there is that missing girl in Aruba.

Even though the mysterious 16,000 vote in Volusia county were taken out later "those votes" caused
all the news organizations to pull their calls that Al Gore won Florida and that is when the "fun" started.
You know, when Baker and all those Enron lawyers started flying to Florida on Enron jets and so on.


And not that there is any connection but look at what the repubs are pushing through
in Ohio (and other states too): "exempts electronic voting machines from public scrutiny"
Bottom line "they" know that "they" have been cheating and all those exit polls were not
wrong in 2000, 2002 (Max Cleland in Georgia a 15 point plus shift of support), and 2004.

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