OHIO Congress Candidate GETS FED TO FILE against Blackwell

[Capn Sunshine]

Just heard from Jeff Seemann, our congress candidate pal in Ohio,

This afternoon, a federal suit was filed against Blackwell and the Ohio Secretary of State's office for violation of the Voting Rights Act.


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Apparently, Blackwell is planning to have every "inactive voter" (voters who are still registered but have not voted for the past few elections) officially challenged. This is a clear case of harassment. Also, Blackwell is supposedly planning to tell poll workers that they do not have to provide 'provisional ballots' unless one is specifically asked for. In the past, if you showed up at the wrong polling place, they would offer you a provisional automatically, but that is about to go out the window.

So we gave all the info we had to the lawyers


NOW GO TO JEFFS WEBSITE and throw him a tip for this work!!
even 5 bucks helps!

http://www.jeff04.com

[Indiana_Dem]

1. Good work! That's wonderful! eom

[Capn Sunshine]

2. These guys are desperate, transparent and dangerous

Look at the "polls "

They are worried about the new registrations, running some 7:1 in Ohio

[liberalnurse]

3. This was in my local paper today....

Dayton Daily News......Nothing at all on TV news!

I'm so proud of the "Fight'en Dem's" like our Jeff Seemann!

Try this link.....

http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0928voting.html

[Roland99]

9. Your link is broken.

[krkaufman]

4. I just tried contributing, but the ACTBlue process choked.

I now have to wait a while to see if my card was charged.

p.s. I added $0.38 to my donation. (3 = D, 8 = U)

[Capn Sunshine]

15. Actblue did the same to me-but it worked out fine

but I just hit the back button on my browser and hit it again and it went through then.

[krkaufman]

19. I did the "Back" button, but opted not to resubmit...

... in case they had successfully charged my card on the first try.

[henslee]

5. So the paperstock controversy is not the thrust of this legal action?

It's the artificial hurdles placed on relocated voters by Blackwell?
Interesting.

[Cheswick2.0]

20. no, this is a new legal action

it will be filed tomorrow.

[liberalmuse]

6. Good!

I hope more suits follow.

[shraby]

7. Link didn't work for me.

[liberalnurse]

10. Oh, I was just being lazy and copied from a previous post....

I went and got a fresh link.....:crazy:

[BillZBubb]

8. If this doesn't wake Ohioans up to the fascist Repugs,

I don't know what will. So much for the idea of trying to get more people to vote.

[liberalnurse]

11. The proplem is that the local new media

is not covering it...to my knowledge anyways.....in Dayton,Ohio....Dayton is deeply involved too! You can read it from the Dayton Daily News....linked above.

[ohioan]

13. The Cincinnati Enquirer covered it, but made it seem as if the Dems

were trying to "relax" the rules.

Please write to the Enquirer and call them on this distortion!

{from my earlier post}

Ballot access goes to court: Democrats want location rules relaxed http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/09/28/loc_loc1abu...

Please email/call Cincinnati Enquirer and remind them that Democrats are NOT trying to "relax" location rules. To the contrary, the Democrats are demanding that the Republican Secretary of State COMPLY WITH FEDERAL LAW!!!

J. Kenneth Blackwell issued a directive to county boards instructing them to deny provisional ballots to voters who come to the wrong polling place, telling them to instead send such voters to the correct polling location. Because poor people who are more likely to vote Democratic tend to move more often, this directive will certainly disproportionately affect Democratic voters.

Blackwell's directive is in direct violation of federal law, which requires that such voters be allowed to cast a provisional vote:

42 U.S.C. § 15482. Provisional voting and voting information requirements

(a) Provisional voting requirements. If an individual declares that such individual is a registered voter in the jurisdiction in which the individual desires to vote and that the individual is eligible to vote in an election for Federal office, but the name of the individual does not appear on the official list of eligible voters for the polling place or an election official asserts that the individual is not eligible to vote, such individual shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot as follows:
(1) An election official at the polling place shall notify the individual that the individual may cast a provisional ballot in that election.
(2) The individual shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot at that polling place upon the execution of a written affirmation by the individual before an election official at the polling place stating that the individual is--
(A) a registered voter in the jurisdiction in which the individual desires to vote; and
(B) eligible to vote in that election.
(3) An election official at the polling place shall transmit the ballot cast by the individual or the voter information contained in the written affirmation executed by the individual under paragraph (2) to an appropriate State or local election official for prompt verification under paragraph (4).
(4) If the appropriate State or local election official to whom the ballot or voter information is transmitted under paragraph (3) determines that the individual is eligible under State law to vote, the individual's provisional ballot shall be counted as a vote in that election in accordance with State law.
(5) (A) At the time that an individual casts a provisional ballot, the appropriate State or local election official shall give the individual written information that states that any individual who casts a provisional ballot will be able to ascertain under the system established under subparagraph (B) whether the vote was counted, and, if the vote was not counted, the reason that the vote was not counted.
(B) The appropriate State or local election official shall establish a free access system (such as a toll-free telephone number or an Internet website) that any individual who casts a provisional ballot may access to discover whether the vote of that individual was counted, and, if the vote was not counted, the reason that the vote was not counted.

CONTACT THE ENQUIRER AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THEIR BIASED COVERAGE OF THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!

http://www.cincinnati.com/helpdesk/feedback /
http://www.enquirer.com/editor/letters.html
[e-mail] (reporter)

While it won't hurt to contact the reporter who wrote the story, he did not write the headline, so it's more important to contact the editors about this.

[liberalnurse]

14. Oh Shit.....

Blackwell is the "Token Black" repug....apparently he was a Democrat before he went to the dark side......

He is from Cincinnati......so they have to caudle him.

[ohioan]

17. Yes - Blackwell has been everything - Democrat, Charterite, Republican

He was Mayor of Cincinnati when he was a Democrat/Charterite. He switched to the Republican Party after Reagan was elected - he obviously figured he'd do better getting in the short line.

Blackwell ran for Congress in 1990 and lost after he came out against the Civil Rights Act. Black voters came out in droves to vote against him. But the Republicans rewarded him for his loyalty and he's done fine ever since as the Republican Great Black Hope in Ohio.

[liberalnurse]

25. It becomes so much cleared now......

His history speaks for his character....or lack of.....:puke:

[ohioan]

12. The suit on provisional ballots was filed yesterday by the ODP

and Sandusky Democratic Party.

I'm not aware of the suit regarding inactive voters. Do you have any more information about it?

[Cheswick2.0]

18. It will be filed tomorow

Thanks To Jeff.

[ohioan]

21. Do you know whose filing it?

[Cheswick2.0]

24. I do not know the name of the law firm

sorry. But we will all know tomorrow.

[ohioan]

26. Sorry - I meant do you know who the plaintiff is?

[okieinpain]

16. kicked in a few pennies. this voter stuff is just ridiculous, so they

are up to their old tricks.

[LisaL]

22. This just gets better and better, doesn't it?

80 lb paper, and now inactive voters? What kind of crap is that?
Is there a law that says a voter has to be an active voter and vote in every election? Obviously not! This is driving me mad!
:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[Rooktoven]

23. A guy helping on the nation level deserves some turkee

good cause.

[ArnoldLayne]

27. It's about

time.

[DeepModem Mom]

28. kick