Here's How Republicans Fix Elections in Ohio
By Steve Kinsman, 11th Aug 2012 | Follow this author
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Republicans are uncanny in their knack for making it difficult for Democrats to vote.
Republicans know how to steal elections
In Pennsylvania and Florida, new voter ID laws, authored by Republican controlled legislatures and signed into law by Republican governors, are aimed at disenfranchising elderly people and African Americans, who generally vote for Democrats. Now, in Ohio, the Republicans have come up with a new tactic. Early voting stations in the most heavily Democratic counties will be open only between the hours of eight and five pm on Mondays through Fridays, but in Republican counties the voting hours will be extended until eight pm weekdays and voting will be allowed on weekends as well.
The board of elections in the counties encompassing Cleveland, Akron, Columbus and Toledo, which vote heavily Democratic, are split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, and they became gridlocked over Democratic efforts to expand early voting hours. As a result, Jon Husted, the Republican Secretary of State, intervened and denied expanded early voting hours to these counties. Republican-heavy counties, however, were able to expand their voting hours. Such is democracy in action in Ohio.
Voter Suppression may hand Election to Republicans
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11th Aug 2012 (#)
Sleazy very very sleazy, way to go Republicans.
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11th Aug 2012 (#)
Nice, at elections
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12th Aug 2012 (#)
I think it happens everywhere including India. Elections are 'fixed'. Nice of you to have brought it out
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13th Aug 2012 (#)
oh God...here those fkers go again...thank you Steve and if you delete this it is ok...
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13th Aug 2012 (#)
Thank you cnwriter, and I would never delete your perceptive comments.
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13th Aug 2012 (#)
I am surprised such rigging takes place in the USA.
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13th Aug 2012 (#)
Workings of democracy seems to be the same everywhere! The end justifies the means! siva
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27th Aug 2012 (#)
Republicans rig elections against their own fellow republicans also.
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