When you can't legitimately win elections, you resort to all kinds of creative tactics.
Let's not forget that Ohio recorded more votes in certain precincts than they had registered voters during the last Presidential election. They couldn't even cheat reasonably.
Coincidence????
It's time to pass laws prohibiting this and put these zealots in prison.
Tue Oct 23, 2012
Sigh. Ohio county sends voters wrong election date, directions to polls
attribution: madhaus
It was "just a mistake," according to the deputy director of the Republican-run Ottawa County Board of Elections in Ohio. And, you know, I'd really like to believe her. But it's Ohio. The board sent a mailer to 2,300 voters in three northwestern Ohio precincts on Lake Erie near Toledo informing them that their voting location had been moved to a building on the east side of Danbury High School. The actual location is on the west side. Voters were also told Election Day was Nov. 8. It is, of course, Nov. 6.
According to the Deputy Director Carol Ann Hill, the board realized the error soon after it sent out postcards to voters and said it was "sending out a new mailer, as we speak, with an apology."
Hill described the error as a "costly mistake," though she said she did not know how it happened, or how much it would cost taxpayers. [...]"We want people to vote, that is our reason to be here," said Hill. "It was just a mistake. It is troublesome to make a mistake, but there was no effort to suppress the voting of anyone."
Sure. Okay.
Asked to explain how two errors were included in one short announcement, she replied, “If you’re going to mess up, do it right.”
Uh-huh.
Now, however, it turns out that the document went to a larger, unknown number of citizens because it was passed out at three Maricopa locations.
An honest mistake? Perhaps. But, unlike the old days of Jim Crow, voter suppression is now all about shaving vote totals. A couple of percentage points here, a couple there, add up.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/23/1148821/-Sigh-Ohio-county-sends-voters-wrong-election-date-directions-to-polls?detail=hide
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