The GOP owns Ohio.....im so depressed

[samplegirl]

Ohio's HB 3 makes election fraud the law. Ohio is only the 1st state.
* No Recounts
* No Looking @ voting and tabulator machines hardware and software
* No challenging Presidential votes.

Not unless it can be overturned in court or overturned by a voter referendum
Diebold & E.E.S. will be able to compute the vote under the watchful of
people like Ken Blackwell. Coming soon to a state near you.

This is a very much an under the radar operation because most people in Ohio
are not really aware of what happened to them even after it became law.
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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, The Columbus Free Press

Ohio's GOP-controlled legislature has passed a repressive new law that will gut free
elections here and is already surfacing elsewhere around the US. The bill will continue
the process of installing the GOP as America's permanent ruling party.

Coming with the swearing in of right-wing extremist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito,
it marks another dark day for what remains of American democracy.

snip

The ID requirement is the direct result of intervention by two high-powered Republican
attorneys with ties to the White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.).
Congressman Bob Ney allowed the Bush-Cheney re-election national counsel Mark "Thor"
Hearne to testify last March as a so-called "voting rights advocate." Hearne, whose resume
shows no connection to voting rights organizations, was responsible for advising the Bush-Cheney
campaign on national litigation and election law strategy during the 2004 election.

Hearne, with the help of Republican attorney Alex Vogel, concocted a story that the problem
with the 2004 elections in Ohio was the NAACP paying people with crack cocaine to register voters.
Vogel's front group, the Free Enterprise Coalition, even indemnified a local Republican operative,
Mark Rubrick, to file an Ohio corrupt practices act suit against the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, ACT-Ohio
and ACORN, The suit was later quietly withdrawn after discovery showed that the operatives behind it
were linked to the top levels of the Republican Party.

Ironically, the Republican Party engaged in racist and massive voter repression in Ohio and are now
institutionalizing that very Jim Crow-style repression and selling it as an election reform bill.

HB3 also ends the ability of the public to conduct meaningful audits of voting machines. Election
protection activists recently forced the adoption of an auditable paper trail into the Ohio election
process. In a state where virtually all ballots are cast and/or counted on electronic equipment,
this cuts to the core of the ability to monitor an election's outcome. The new provision in HB3 will
make the paper trail virtually meaningless.

snip

With today's passage of Ohio HB3, along with the seating of Justice Alito, the GOP grip on the
American throat has very significantly tightened.


http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2006/17...

[mdmc]

1. Ohio is the future!

The USA has been owned by corporations for quite a while... One party, two subparties...

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Yeah, I know

And we also have the Ohio Patriot Act, which says thet it is illegal to be in public without ID and submitting to questioning.

[samplegirl]

3. with alarming speed