Monday, October 08, 2012

Voter intimidation lives in Ohio!

In the pre-Eisenhower era, Democrats kept blacks from the polls with a variety of tricks backed by the federal and state governments. Now they are keeping citizens looking at public registration rolls in Ohio from reporting deceased, out of state, and residence errors to the county board of elections through intimidation. True The Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht released a statement regarding the Ohio Voter Integrity Project's submission of Citizen Challenges, a process outlined in Ohio Election Code by which a registered voter can file an official request with their Board of Elections to review irregular voter registrations.
http://www.truethevote.org/news/true-the-vote-statement-regarding-the-ohio-voter-integrity-project-s-ongoing-voter-roll-challenges

However, having clean rolls, terrifies the Democrats and even a few county entrenched Republicans, and these citizens, doing what they are legally allowed to do, submit challenges to the board of elections, are being demonized in the press and by people in both parties!

Says, Engelbrecht, "These citizens trusted that their counties would thoughtfully consider their submissions and either grant or deny their findings, as stated in the protocol outlined in Ohio Election Code, which should have resulted in deceased voters being removed, duplicate entries being revised, and incorrect addresses being corrected.

“Many counties did make corrections to their registration records. In some cases, county boards rejected the challenges based on updated information or other internal reasons that were unknown to the citizens at the time of filing. . . their well-intentioned efforts were spun and recast as villainous; their names were splayed across the front pages of their local papers; West Coast reporters showed up on their lawns and stalked them for comment, suddenly they found themselves at the center of a national spectacle. They trusted in the system and were betrayed at every turn.”

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