InSane Mails 1M Bad Ballots to Ohio Voters
Submitted by fanofwalt on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 03:53
Yes, this comes from the leftist Daily Kos, but do have a look:
McCain campaign admits mailing 1 Million bad ballot applications to voters in Ohio
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It turns out the problem is that the McCain campaign added a box on these forms that required you to check it to confirm you were an eligible voter. Yep, that's right- check here if you are eligible to vote. I guess the act of actually requesting an absentee ballot doesn't qualify that. And if you don't check it...
... bingo. You get the picture. And the McCain campaign has sent out over a MILLION of these forms. The State of Ohio and the local election boards, understandably, don't want to pay to fix the mistake on this- how much d'you want to bet the McCain campaign wants to pay to fix it?
Over seven-hundred and fifty absentee applications have been rejected so far. If we're counting on absentee and early voting to help us mobilize our GOTV effort, then this is a clear and present danger to it.
It looks like these were sent to the general public, meaning all Ohio voters would be affected.
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"Misleading" absentee ballot applications are being mailed out by the McCain campaign to registered Democratic voters in purple states. The return addresses are inaccurate, as well as other information. "Misleading, lying" mailers are going out in Florida and other purple states. It's a caging tactic.
Calls are coming in verifying that this is happening in small towns, as well as larger ones.
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... the Republicans mailed out requests for ballot applications to Republicans. Jennifer Brunner, the Democratic Secty of State, ruled the applications were ILLEGAL, meaning that the Hamilton county BOE could not send out absentee ballots to Republicans.
But instead of just requiring that the ballot applications be thrown away (which is what Ken Blackwell would have required), they are notifying these people that their applications were invalid.
If you're voting with an absentee ballot -- in Ohio or elsewhere -- you just might want to double-check your forms.
Wow...
the craziness never ends, does it?
Crazy is as crazy does
Here's the question, though: was this deliberate or accidental?
I mean, for InSane to send out incorrect ballots (and therefore illegal) ballot applications to Republicans, that seriously cuts down the likelihood that Republicans will be able to legally vote. Especially if voters are being told, not that their forms are bad and they need to send in corrected versions, but simply that their applications are invalid. Doesn't that shoot InSane in the foot?
On the other hand, if it's a simple error, what other errors will we get to look forward to if InSane lands in the Oval Office?
Sabotage (from either inside or outside of InSane's campaign) or sheer ineptitude?
And, um, why is the InSane campaign sending out these ballot applications, anyway? Isn't that something that each Secretary of State is responsible for?
Just another reason to get involved NOW with working the voting polls for November. Even if we are able to somehow circumvent Diebold and get affidavits from all who voted, that won't matter if millions of people don't get to vote in the first place, due to faulty and illegal ballot applications.