erynthered Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ohio-provisional-ballots-delay/2012/11/01/id/462413 I see cluster !@#$ all over this. snip......... For the first time in the key swing state’s history, Blackwell says, virtually all Ohio voters this year were mailed an application for an absentee ballot. In previous elections, most Ohio voters had to request an application for an absentee ballot to receive one. The concern is that thousands of Ohio voters may complete the absentee-ballot application and receive an absentee ballot, but not bother to complete and mail in the ballot. Anyone who is sent an absentee ballot — including those who do not complete it and mail it in — and later shows up at the polls on Election Day to cast their ballot in person will be instructed to instead complete a provisional ballot. And under Ohio election law, provisional ballots cannot be opened until 10 days after an election. “I would just say that this is a potential nightmare-in-waiting,” says Blackwell. Blackwell believes that could result in an unprecedented number of provisional ballots being filed – some 250,000 or more. Such a large number of ballots being held, presumably under armed guard, for 10 days until they can be opened, would bring to mind the historic 2000 post-election battle in Florida. That recount was marked by ballot disputes — and inevitably, lawsuits. “You’re talking about craziness for 10 days,” Blackwell tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview. “They won’t even be opened to be counted for 10 days.” According to a report by Barry M. Horstman of the Cincinnati Enquirer, absentee-ballot applications were mailed to 6.9 million of Ohio’s 7.8 million registered voters. As of Oct. 26, Ohio election officials had mailed out 1.3 absentee ballots. Of those absentee ballots, 950,000 had been completed and mailed back in. That leaves some 350,000 absentee ballots that had been requested and sent to voters, but had not yet been received. Ohio voters who requested an absentee ballot, but did not complete it and mail it back in, will not be allowed to vote normally. Explains Blackwell: “So they go to the polls and say, ‘I want my ballot.’ And [poll workers] say, ‘Oh, we see you applied for an absentee ballot.’ The voter says, ‘Oh, I changed my mind.’ And they say, ‘That’s well and good, but we have to guarantee that you don’t vote twice. You have to fill out a provisional ballot.’” Provisional ballots are used whenever someone shows up at the polls whose eligibility to vote cannot be immediately verified. Their name may not show up on the voter rolls, for example. Rather than turn them away, state election officials typically have those individuals indicate their voting preference with a provisional ballot. Once their eligibility to vote has been established, the vote can be counted. The use of provisional ballots is intended to prevent any voter from casting one ballot by mail, and then a second ballot at the polling place. Ohio’s current secretary of state, Republican Jon Husted, pushed for the absentee-ballot applications to go out to all voters, according to Blackwell. In previous Ohio elections, a few counties would automatically send out absentee-ballot applications to all their residents, while the vast majority of counties would not. Husted sought to make the absentee ballot process uniform across Ohio’s 88 counties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck_dodgers007 Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Newsmax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 (edited) Newsmax You REALLY are a retard, you dumb !@#$, google it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/25/a-possible-nightmare-scenario-for-counting-votes-in-ohio/ http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121025/NEWS010601/310250037/Ohio-s-nightmare-voting-scenario Edited November 1, 2012 by erynthered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck_dodgers007 Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 You REALLY are a retard, you dumb !@#$, google it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/25/a-possible-nightmare-scenario-for-counting-votes-in-ohio/ http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121025/NEWS010601/310250037/Ohio-s-nightmare-voting-scenario erynthered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 erynthered You are without question the most profoundly retarded poster I have ever seen here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck_dodgers007 Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 You are without question the most profoundly retarded poster I have ever seen here. I'm never called to have a poster banned before. That's totally retarded. "Make him go away so I don't have to read what I should ignore. My pea brain hurts enough already without have to read someone I disagree with." I won't respond to you again as I just see you as such a low life, addle minded loser that you are not worth the effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jauronimo Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 I'm never called to have a poster banned before. That's totally retarded. "Make him go away so I don't have to read what I should ignore. My pea brain hurts enough already without have to read someone I disagree with." I won't respond to you again as I just see you as such a low life, addle minded loser that you are not worth the effort. I'll tell SDS to run it by you next time you're banned, Park Dodgers in Norfolk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Newsmax erynthered I'm never called to have a poster banned before. That's totally retarded. "Make him go away so I don't have to read what I should ignore. My pea brain hurts enough already without have to read someone I disagree with." I won't respond to you again as I just see you as such a low life, addle minded loser that you are not worth the effort. Have you ever read your own child like posts? Have you ever contributed anything here but playground chants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayman Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 You can only do a provisional ballot in Ohio EVEN IF you bring the absentee ballot with you to the polls? What a stupid rule... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Not sure what it is about people in Alaska, but they certainly don't react well to people with differing brainless perspectives. Why does it not shock me you would be be a supporter of Daffy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 erynthered You really are a tool. You better hurry up the short bus is waiting for you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 You can only do a provisional ballot in Ohio EVEN IF you bring the absentee ballot with you to the polls? What a stupid rule... What's to stop you from brining in yours, and passing it to me as you leave, then me voting and passing it to David Axelrod who uses it to vote and passes it to Michelle O... Not such a stupid rule. What's stupid is them sending them out to "virtually every voter in the state". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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