Latest Pajamas Media Column (’Early Voting Is a Travesty’) Is Up
It will go up Saturday at BizzyBlog (link won’t work until then).
Couldn’t get to in the column: Much of the blame for the early voting fiasco in Ohio goes to the allegedly GOP-controlled General Assembly. Despite the fact that voters soundly rejected the misnamed, George Soros-inspired 2005 Reform Ohio initiatives, which included early voting (Issue 2), the Assembly preemptively passed HB 234, which adopted much of what was in Issue 2, and opened the door for ACORN’s fraud artists and fraud-enabling Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. Thanks, guys and gals.
If we give a rip about the integrity of elections, we need to return to:
- One day.
- One vote.
- Rare exceptions.
Oh, and while I’m at it, the only person who should be allowed to turn in a voter registration card should be the registering voter (imagine that), and only to a Board of Elections official or employee on payroll. BOEs should of course be sufficiently staffed to do appropriate but controlled outreach.
I’m just amazed how you keep on finding the time to bring up the bogus issue about Strickland’s residency while being silent on Speaker Husted and Senator Jacobson’s (especially since they currently hold offices which specifically require that the candidate reside in the district as a legal qualification for the office.)
Still can’t sqeeze it in, huh? Just amazin’.
Comment by Modern Esquire — October 30, 2008 @ 10:19 am
#1, and this has what to do with early voting? Off topic, not relevant.
Still waiting for the hard-news link I asked for days ago (I follow up on hard news, not hard-to-digest BSB bloviating). I may choose not to deal with it beyond the point already made, because Husted doesn’t hold national or statewide office, or isn’t running for it. If you don’t like it, tough.
You don’t set my priorities. You can criticize them here once or twice (your quota is up); beyond that, you’re wasting my time and readers’ time. Anyway, you’ve got your own platform elsewhere, where you’re perfectly free to bore your own readers with no constraints.
Comment by TBlumer — October 30, 2008 @ 10:45 am
I’m sorry, Tom, what “hard news” link are you asking about? Could you be a little more specific? It’s hard to respond to some vague request.
Comment by Modern Esquire — October 30, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
I would agree that the only person who should be able to turn in a voter registration card should be the voter registering to vote. And that they should be required to provide adequate ID, both of who they are and residency.
However you are so very, very, very wrong on the early voting issue. The only times I’ve missed voting have been in the past when early voting meant applying for an absentee ballot quite some time in advance. It has been years since I voted at my precinct.
As to the exit polling, no exit polling of any kinds should be allowed to be disclosed before all the polling stations in all the effected states have closed. So for local and state races they could give out exit polling just as soon as the polls close in that state and before the official results are released. For the office of President however it would mean that no exit polling results would be release by the county or state before the polls close in Hawaii.
Comment by Sookie — October 30, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
#4, you still haven’t addressed the control problems.
If you have a chance, go read the column. I think my 10 (really 11, counting the de facto exit polling that polllsters are doing) are tough to argue against.
Comment by TBlumer — October 30, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Tom, just so you ease your concerns about early voting, check out the AT article: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/more_dems_in_early_fla_voting.html
It appears the Obamatron’s polarizing race baiting has backfired…among Democrats! (Nelson Muntz) HA ha
Comment by dscott — October 30, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
#3, I forgot to bring my kids’ old crayons to work today.
I looked up stories Husted’s situation since providing a link seemed beyond your capability. My stance described earlier is appropriate. I’ve made my point.
Comment by TBlumer — October 30, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
#6, that’s nice in this election, but this news shouldn’t be out there at all, whether it helps Dems or Reps or others.
NO BOE should be reporting any kind of results — numbers, party IDs, percentage turnout. NOTHING.
Early voting should also be minimized to the old absentee definitions (actually, a bit stricter) because pollsters won’t stop polling before election day. So the numbers have to be kept really small as they have alwys been traditionally so that pollsters won’t waste their time, because the info won’t tell them anything meaningful.
Comment by TBlumer — October 30, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
#6- You linked one story in which you made a passing reference to Husted’s residency issue (it was in one of your “I’m too busy to really post about this” posts).
Yet, you never called Husted out the way you did Strickland, never said whether you believe this disqualifies him as a candidate for Secretary of State. Whether he should immediately resign since he doesn’t live in the district, whether he should be criminally prosecuted for voter fraud and tax fraud.
What you DID bother to write about was a lame defense that you can’t blame him for not reading the DDN newspapers that had been piling up on his district “residence” front porch (if the DDN is so bad, then why would Husted waste his money subscribing to it?)
When my entire point is that you seem to suffer from selective outrage, you’re only post on the topic CONFIRMS it.
Comment by Modern Esquire — October 31, 2008 @ 10:33 am
Asked and answered. Several times.
You’re boring everybody.
Comment by TBlumer — October 31, 2008 @ 11:05 am