SOS Brunner Trys To Disenfranchise Ohio Voters
September 20, 2008 by Conservative Culture
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Did Secretary of State Brunner endorse the disenfranchisement of Allen County Voters requesting an Absentee Ballot for the upcoming election? When Progress Ohio mentioned it you will find out that the Republican led county voted to ensure the rights of these voters were upheld.The legal advice was to accept the documents as valid and legal despite Brunner’s objections. Score one for voter rights.
What Progress Ohio didn’t make much mention of was that the ballot issue petitions appears to be some of the most fraudulent documents the BOE Director has seen in 10 years. Who is passing these petitions off as legitmante despite the forged signatures? I’ll let you guess… it’s about the payday lending ballot issue.
With respect to the absentee ballot requests, Cunningham said the secretary of state’s directive was a petty reason to disenfranchise voters.
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner’s office sent out a directive advising boards of elections that a check box on the form with a statement “I am a qualified elector and would like to receive an absentee ballot for the Nov. 4, 2008 general election” must be checked in order to be considered a valid request.
Cunningham sought clarification on the issue from the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office.
“Unless the secretary of state can provide adequate basis for concluding that the box is a check-box and then also provide a valid legal foundation for her conclusion that the check-box must be marked in order for the application to be acceptable, I recommend that the board accept otherwise compliant cards that do not have a mark in the purported box next to the statement that the applicant is a qualified elector,” Assistant Prosecutor Anthony J. Miller wrote in a Wednesday letter to the elections board.
The board unanimously accepted the advice.
“The point is they are considered a legal request for absentee ballots,” board Chairman Gary Frueh said. “We’ll move forward until we learn otherwise.”
Local News: Elections board investigating fraud | board, elections, petitions : LimaOhio.com.
concerned
on Sun, 21st Sep 2008 3:18 pm
You claim Progress Ohio “didn’t make much mention of was that the ballot issue petitions appears to be some of the most fraudulent documents the BOE Director has seen in 10 years.”
Yet clicking the very link you provide I see this “The petitions that were submitted on behalf of the payday lending referendum were among the worst petitions I’ve seen in 10 years. ”
Also, I’m surprised that someone whose nearly incomprehensible grammar and spelling clearly indicates they speak English as a second language would be so offended by a recommendation to learn Spanish.
Conservative Culture
on Sun, 21st Sep 2008 10:30 pm
Well excuse the poor editing on the article. There were two errors… one misspelling by the author and one improper capitalization. Let me clarify the rest. Progress Ohio did indeed mention that they were the worst petitions in 10 years. Progress Ohio however didn’t mention that it was liberals behind the petitions that were fraudulent… something that seems to be common among liberal groups especially in light of the Acorn revelation in Michigan (see article in blog).
What you also failed to catch in Progess Ohio is that he appears to blame the disenfranchisement on the local BOE instead of major partisan hack lib Brunner and her interpretation of a check box. So you may struggle with the grammar but I struggle with your majorly incomprehensible liberal mindset. Thanks for reading and keep posting your comments.
concerned
on Tue, 23rd Sep 2008 7:51 am
No, it absolutely was not “liberals” behind the payday lending petitions. Bi-partisan payday lending reform, lowering the interest rate from 391%, passed the Republican Ohio House and Republican Ohio Senate and was signed into law by the Democratic Governor earlier this year.
It is “conservatives” who are trying to overturn the law by putting the issue on the ballot (and lying and signing up dead people http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/13/copy/payday13.ART_ART_08-13-08_B5_UNB0SSD.html?sid=101)
How about a retraction?
dave
on Tue, 23rd Sep 2008 12:06 pm
The Author apparently has confused 2 entirely different topics.
He links to a post at progressohio.org that discusses the apparently fraudulent signatures collected by the Payday Lender industry in Allen County and then apparently completely confuses that post with the McCain campaign’s missing check boxes within Absentee Ballot requests because that entirely different issue was also discussed in the original article at which is linked from PO to Limaohio.com.
The two issues are entirely unrelated, although as the author picked up it is true that both issues are about elections processes in general.