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Filed under Politics (National) "OHIO IS BEING ABDUCTED"
Shelby Holliday reporting from Columbus, Ohio (2008-10-08 16:36:25)
Source: http://www.palestra.net/videos/play/16803
Last week, thousands of people cast ballots during Ohio's "Golden Week." If you haven't been following the story, this seven day period allowed people to register and cast a ballot at the same time.
This "Golden Week" has caused outrage among Ohio citizens concerned about the leniency of the law.
(See video link @ top of page)
One of the biggest issues? These voters didn't need to show ID or proof of residency in order to cast their ballot.
We witnessed dozens of homeless people being driven to the polls, and none of them had to prove that they were Ohio residents. In fact, one man I spoke with was about to hop on a Greyhound bus to go back to Chicago.
We have been trying for a week now to get a comment from the Secretary of State to see how she plans on verifying the residency and identification of all these early voters. Despite numerous phone calls and emails, we have yet to be granted even just a ten minute interview.
Who I did speak with was the Director of the Franklin County Board of Elections. When I asked him what would prevent the homeless man from voting in Illinois just weeks after he cast a ballot in Ohio, he told me that their voter checks are "just county-to-county, we do not do state by state."
WHAT!?
That's right folks: "We can only follow what we are provided for in Ohio law, and there's no state-by-state check yet."
The system seems seriously flawed. Unless Secretary Brunner can explain how this "no ID, no residency, no problem" early voting law is fair, none of those votes should count. Especially with the controversial actions of groups like Acorn that are alive and well here in Buckeye country.
Bernadine Decicco, an outraged citizen of Columbus told me this:
"All my life I've been an Ohio citizen, born and raised here, and Ohio is being abducted."
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