If You Can't Vote, There's No Voter Fraud
Or at least that's what they're hoping, I guess.

It's the same old-same-old in Arizona these days: too many non-whites may show up to vote:

"The Maricopa County Elections Department mistakenly listed the wrong date of the upcoming general election on an official government document.

The error appears on a document containing a voter ID card.

In addition to the ID card, the piece of paper it comes in lists other information such as important election dates.In the corner of the document, it says November 6th in English but in Spanish it reads 8 de Noviembre, the 8th of November."http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/10/18/weve-determined-that-trying-to-cover-it-up-requires-too-much-effort/

And in Pennsylvania, they leave it to the largest utility company to mess things up...that way it doesn't look too partisan, I guess:"Pennsylvania’s biggest utility company, PECO, has admitted to sending incorrect voter ID information to 1.3 million customers in 7 Pennsylvania counties. 

PECO isn’t the only source disseminating confusing information to Pennsylvanian voters. For a week after the court order suspended the ID requirement, at least 5 counties stated on their websites that voters must show an eligible ID to vote. A billboard targeting Spanish speakers as well as television ads continued to promote the ID requirement for at least a week after the law was invalidated."

http://tinyurl.com/96m7ma9

In Ohio, you've got to give them an A for effort...these guys NEVER give up:

The Board of Elections sent out voter packets to people without knowing if the current registrant's information was correct."The company was not told to do that and should not have, said Harsman. He said the national list is not necessarily accurate and the board must get verification from a voter before their address can be changed. Also, a change in address would likely have also required new information on the postcard regarding voting precinct and districts so voters who got the cards at their new address were likely told to go to the wrong precinct.

All 16,000 voters have now been sent letters informing them that they need to be sure they are registered at their current address. Since the deadline for updating registrations passed on Oct. 9, any who have not updated their records will have to cast provisional ballots on Election Day." http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/montgomery-county-voters-may-have-received-wrong-p/nSgFy/

This was the same Montgomery County where Jon Husted, Republican Sec. of State, fired the two Democrats on the board...because he could, and was ruled against by the Ohio Supreme Court: 

"The two Democrats on the Montgomery County Board of Elections were suspended by Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted on Friday after they refused to back down in a standoff over extending in-person early voting hours for the upcoming election.....

But those four counties traditionally vote heavily Democratic, and there is a national backlash from Democrats who said Republican-dominated counties would have more opportunity to vote than Democratic-leaning counties."

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/husted-suspends-democrats-on-montgomery-county-boa/nRDx5/



UPDATE
Or you can just destroy voter registration cards...
http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2012/10/arrest-made-in-harrisonburg-voter-registration-scandal.html

If you "disillusioned Dems" can't seem to work up any enthusiasm for our President....you didn't get EVERYTHING you thought you were promised....at least be concerned that YOUR right to cast a vote for ANYONE is being undermined. And...the Repubs do not care about the average Joe.

SECOND UPDATE
This post and must-see video explain Minnesota's take on this sort of thing:
http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/10/voter-suppression-billboards.html

Denial Of Rights Made Right

UPDATE: Governor NOT going to follow court's ruling.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/ohio-voting_n_1855238.html
This is going to be an all-out war for votes in Ohio.

It's gratifying to see that once in a while precedent actually counts for something, and fairness prevails:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/31/784981/breaking-federal-court-strikes-down-ohio-law-restricting-early-voting

"Amusingly, the court’s opinion relies on the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Bush v. Gore to reach this holding, citing Bush‘s statement that “[h]aving once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another.”


Now, I wonder if Rep. Sec. of State Jon Husted (he of the questionable political past) will give the two Dems on the Montgomery County Boards of Elections their jobs back??

"The Democrats were removed as the result of their failure to comply with Husted's order to standardize early voting hours across the state. Ritchie and Lieberman voted to keep early voting hours on weekends despite Husted's order which only specified weekday voting, claiming that Husted's order was ambiguous."

http://www.wdtn.com/dpp/news/local/montgomery/dems-kicked-off-local-election-board#.UED_RELFJ5g

I know these Right Wingers, with the aid of Koch money, are trying their best to win this election. Maybe, just maybe, they won't. But we can't take ANYTHING for granted....or lying down.

Oh, That Crazy Ohio !

Things seem to be moving right along in that republican state of Kasichstan, where the governor and his buddies, the Brothers Koch, have surreptitiously inserted their Right Wing agenda into the workings of government. The governor got a pushback on his union busting but things are still a bit rough in the "public worker" section. Take firefighters, for instance: nobody wants to be one because the majority are "volunteers."

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/volunteer-firefighters-difficult-to-attract-1392603.html

“We try to find ways to first bring them in and then keep them,” Smith said of the volunteers, who he said are hard to recruit because some “people don’t won’t to work for pennies on the dollar.”

Convincing everybody that the last part of the statement is a GOOD thing now seems to be a sticking point for the Repubs.
Then I noticed there may be small problem with that "separation of church and state" thing. Reminds me of the government funds being used for Liberty University....your tax payer money spreading the conservative view of higher education to college students whether you 
wanted it or not. 
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/xenia-receives-grant-to-renovate-legacy-center-1392581.htm

The City of Xenia recently was awarded a $2.7 million grant from the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund to further revamp what is now the sprawling 253-acre Legacy Center campus.

Partly as a result, a $6 million nursing facility and a Christian radio network will be added to the campus, developers said.

“This property belongs to God,” said Claude “Bud” E. Schindler Jr., president emeritus of Dayton Christian School System. “He is doing his work.”

Excuse me...but why is the state of Ohio paying for "God's work?" I've no qualms with such endeavors...but I'm sure there are LOTS of other Ohio revitalizations that need to me done (have you been to West Dayton, Youngstown, or Akron???)...and this is the best they can come up with? What about the old GOP bromide about the sick, the poor, or the unemployed "going to the church or charities for help. That's what they're there for." The church-sponsored entities apparently have the OK to go to the government.
Oh, there's this, too:

“We strongly believe in Clean Ohio and total revitalization (efforts),” said Kvamme, who serves as JobsOhio’s president and chief investment officer.
&
Kasich already has named Mark Kvamme, a wealthy Silicon Valley venture capitalist working on a $1 salary, as his director of development who will help shape JobsOhio. (2010)


Update: //freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/06/19/what-religious-tax-exemptions-cost-us/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

WHAT HAPPENED TO VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD ??Seems like the Repubs doth protest too much these days:

 Conservatives Coming to Ohio for Registration Drives

DAYTON – Two conservative policy organizations will bring their “values bus tour” to Ohio this week, with multiple stops planned in southwest Ohio as the groups aim to register Christians to vote. Family Research Council, which focuses on issues such as abortion and marriage, and the Heritage Foundation, which is promoting its Saving the American Dream fiscal plan, have taken the tour to about a dozen states.

“The main thing we’ll be doing, and we’ll do this at all the stops, is our voter registration project,” said Tom McClusky, senior vice president of the Family Research Council’s political action committee. “There are a lot of Christians who have not been engaged (in the political process).............from the Dayton Daily News 4/07/12

We've got to keep that conservative Christian "majority" voting bloc strong. No matter that the Right has been working over time, and not-so-silently, to keep everyone ELSE from doing the same thing. Blacks. Seniors. The poor. College students. Tech school students. And of course "illegals...you know how they vote in DROVES....

Then you have efforts like these by those on Right:

  http://www.rockthevote.com/about/press-room/press-releases/florida-assault-on-young-voters.html

http://www.lwv.org/content/statement-elisabeth-macnamara-president-lwvus-forum-entitled-excluded-democracy-impact

and in South Carolina: http://signon.org/sign/sc-government-stop-the

Oh, yes..that Family Research Council that is so diligently "getting out the vote?"http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/americas-third-party-will-just-be-anti-gay-marriage-says-frc/politics/2012/04/06/37664
Nothing says conservative Christian voter....like a hate group. Are people THAT stupid??