I am a Republican who lives in Cleveland, and I think there are two sides to this—and both sides point to the same thing. I grew up outside of Philadelphia, which has a history of democratic voter fraud. But, in Ohio, the voter fraud was largely Republican. I was at the polls all day long, in an almost exclusively African-American precinct and I did not see a single sign of voter fraud on behalf of the democrats. The Republican challengers did not even challenge anyone’s registration, because it was so well-organized. Throughout the whole day, there was only one slight discsrepancy in names, and it was a spelling error.
What is the problem in Ohio? The problem is a conflict of interest. Kenneth Blackwell, a right-wing extremist republican, was the head of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio, and he was also the secretary of state in Ohio, and is the one who is ultimately in charge of overseeing the election. He also was supporting the "Issue 1" amendment in Ohio, an amendment to the ohio constitution which goes beyond banning gay marriage to actually make it illegal for anyone in the state to provide marriage-like benefits to employees. The amendment was anti-business and anti-American. Another conflict of interest in this election was the Diebold corporation.
I personally would like to see more criticism of our election, and I would like to see us solve these problems. I would like to see public officials such as Blackwell, with a clear conflict of interest, banned from participating in the election process, or at least, made to work with opposition leaders as well. I would like to see crackdowns on the "dead voter" phenomenon in heavily democratic cities such as Philadelphia or Chicago. I would like to see fair, consistent policies for voting in rural areas, suburbs, and cities alike. And I would like to see requirements on voting machines that they are based on open standards, that their software and hardware is fully open-source and the specifications are available to public scrutiny, and that the machines leave paper trails. And all mechanical machines should be examined as well—New York state uses a certain type of level-machine that has been shown to have as much as 20% inaccuracy.
All these inconsistencies are ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE in a democracy.
And I can say: anyone who opposes these policies, whether democrat or republican, is not a real American, and does not really believe in free elections.
We as Americans need to band together, become UNIFIED, and agree to end voter fraud and voting inconsistencies once and for all. We need to come from both sides of the political spectrum, and put and end to ALL voter fraud. Anything less is simply wrong.
I am a Republican who lives in Cleveland, and I think there are two sides to this—and both sides point to the same thing. I grew up outside of Philadelphia, which has a history of democratic voter fraud. But, in Ohio, the voter fraud was largely Republican. I was at the polls all day long, in an almost exclusively African-American precinct and I did not see a single sign of voter fraud on behalf of the democrats. The Republican challengers did not even challenge anyone’s registration, because it was so well-organized. Throughout the whole day, there was only one slight discsrepancy in names, and it was a spelling error.
What is the problem in Ohio? The problem is a conflict of interest. Kenneth Blackwell, a right-wing extremist republican, was the head of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio, and he was also the secretary of state in Ohio, and is the one who is ultimately in charge of overseeing the election. He also was supporting the "Issue 1" amendment in Ohio, an amendment to the ohio constitution which goes beyond banning gay marriage to actually make it illegal for anyone in the state to provide marriage-like benefits to employees. The amendment was anti-business and anti-American. Another conflict of interest in this election was the Diebold corporation.
I personally would like to see more criticism of our election, and I would like to see us solve these problems. I would like to see public officials such as Blackwell, with a clear conflict of interest, banned from participating in the election process, or at least, made to work with opposition leaders as well. I would like to see crackdowns on the "dead voter" phenomenon in heavily democratic cities such as Philadelphia or Chicago. I would like to see fair, consistent policies for voting in rural areas, suburbs, and cities alike. And I would like to see requirements on voting machines that they are based on open standards, that their software and hardware is fully open-source and the specifications are available to public scrutiny, and that the machines leave paper trails. And all mechanical machines should be examined as well—New York state uses a certain type of level-machine that has been shown to have as much as 20% inaccuracy.
All these inconsistencies are ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE in a democracy.
And I can say: anyone who opposes these policies, whether democrat or republican, is not a real American, and does not really believe in free elections.
We as Americans need to band together, become UNIFIED, and agree to end voter fraud and voting inconsistencies once and for all. We need to come from both sides of the political spectrum, and put and end to ALL voter fraud. Anything less is simply wrong.