Comments on: How The Tea Party Hopes To Purge Thousands of Ohio Voters http://kstreet607.com/2012/09/28/how-the-tea-party-hopes-to-purge-thousands-of-ohio-voters/ Sorting out the crazies...and other ruminations Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:37:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Two Wins for Obama’s Administration | Black Write & Read http://kstreet607.com/2012/09/28/how-the-tea-party-hopes-to-purge-thousands-of-ohio-voters/#comment-119956 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:24:50 +0000 http://kaystreet.wordpress.com/?p=28704#comment-119956 [...] How The Tea Party Hopes To Purge Thousands of Ohio Voters (kaystreet.wordpress.com) [...]

]]> By: WiseFather http://kstreet607.com/2012/09/28/how-the-tea-party-hopes-to-purge-thousands-of-ohio-voters/#comment-119150 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:06:14 +0000 http://kaystreet.wordpress.com/?p=28704#comment-119150 It could be worse than you think. the pretextual “hunt for voter fraud” goes beyond registration purging and poll watchers. In states where poll watchers are more heavily regulated, True the Vote and their affiliates/allies are recruiting and training people to be actual election judges. One organizer went so far as to say “Being an election judge is even better than being a poll watcher as you are actually running the election.”

So do you think that driver’s license makes your vote safe?

Any liquor store clerk knows how easy it is to get a fake. Do we expect TTV not to be aware of this fact in their training? Does the state provide adequate guidance for election judges in determining whether an ID’s picture sufficiently matches the person staning before them? What about the signature matching requirements?

These subjective judgment calls concerning a person’s right to vote a regular ballot may end up in the hands of someone trained to be paranoid rather than reasonably vigilant. See http://www.ragingwisdom.com/?p=1146 for some of the flaws in Ohio’s laws protecting voters on election day, and here
http://www.ragingwisdom.com/?p=1157 for Florida which has a horrific defect in its voter challenge law that is not getting enough attention.

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