Secretary of State Husted: “Its Easy to Vote in Ohio”

According to Secretary of State Husted:  In Ohio, you can vote by mail where absentee ballots are mailed to every voter in the state, almost 30 days of Early Voting, and then Election Day.

With absentee voting starting 28 days before the election, Ohio remains above the national average for access to voting. Many of our surrounding states – including Michigan, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New York – don’t even provide an early voting option. In addition, with the exception of states that vote exclusively by mail, Ohio has been the only state to send absentee ballot applications to all voters ahead of the election. 
Yep, disenfranchising voters all over Ohio.  This is why Republicans and Democrats just talk past each other. 

“Mississippi Secretary of State offers free rides to obtain voter ID”

NewChannel3: Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann wants everybody to have an easy go of it, so he’s even offering free rides to local clerk’s offices across the state for people who call the Voter ID Hotline.  ”We set this up through the Mississippi Department of Transportation and they have a network already and it includes about 500 vehicles spread across the state.”

“FBI blocked in corruption probe involving Sens. Reid, Lee”

The Washington Times with a blockbuster headline of the Justice Department blocking a FBI probe into corruption in the Senate.

FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation have uncovered accusations of wrongdoing by two of the U.S. Senate’s most prominent figures — Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Sen. Mike Lee — but the Justice Department has thwarted their bid to launch a full federal investigation

Senator Boxer: “If voting lines over one hour, DOJ will require states to submit plan for approval to reduce time”

On Wednesday of this week, the Senate Rules Committee held a hearing entitled Election Administration: Innovation, Administrative Improvements and Cost Savings.   At minute 35 of the hearing, Senator Boxer describes the penalty if any voting line in America is over one hour.  In a nutshell, the state or local officials goes into the DOJ penalty box where they will hand over to the election official crayons and paper and require a joint plan to reduce the wait times.  As if DOJ has some secret formula!!!

What is it about Senator Boxer and Democrats who want to give the inept and radicalized DOJ power over state election laws and procedures.  Lets make this clear.  The Holder DOJ is not seen by Republicans as a fair arbiter of anything, much less the voting laws. 
Dead on Arrival.

Lawmaker: “VRA update creates different classes of states”

Many Southern GOP lawmakers lauded the Supreme Court for removing the stigma that their states were hotbeds of racial intolerance and recognizing that these states had over the years changed their ways. These same members are less than enthusiastic about Congress putting them back in the preclearance penalty box.

One such lawmaker is Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Miss., who participated in the past week’s pilgrimage. He described the chill he felt standing in the Jackson, Miss., driveway where Medgar Evers, a black civil rights activist, was murdered in 1963 with his wife and children just inside their home — but he said that the experience didn’t change his opposition to a VRA update that would single out states like his.

“You can’t have something that creates different classes of states. And if you’re gonna do something, it’s gotta apply to everybody,” Harper said. “Why wouldn’t it be based on future events instead of pulling people back in based on something that has happened in the past? What’s your standard gonna be?”

More at Roll Call.

“Poll worker sentenced to 5 years for voter fraud serves only 8 months”



One month for each illegal vote:


 


“A Hamilton County judge released a former poll worker sentenced to five years in prison for voter fraud after eight months on Tuesday.


 


“On July, 7, Melowese Richardson, 58, pleaded to four counts of illegal voting in 2009, 2011 and 2012 in the courtroom of Hamilton County Judge Robert P. Ruelman.  One count charged her with voting for her sister, who is in a coma. Four other counts were dropped in exchange for Richardson’s plea.”


 
At the time she was charged, Richardson was in denial that voting twice and casting ballots for other people constituted voter fraud. Hopefully she won’t return to her multiple-voting ways – or her poll worker job.