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Originally posted by kozmo
WTF!?!? The CONSTITUTION... you may remember is the document upon which ALL laws are built, states that voting is reserved for the first Tuesday in November. To accomodate those who cannot make it to the polls, Absentee Voter laws were passed. A logical exception would be active military who do not have simple access to either Absentee Voter Ballots or the polls themsleves. Laziness is NOT an excuse for failing to cast your ballot on the proscribed day. Neither is "Convenience".
Democrat motto: Vote early and vote often!
Laziness is NOT an excuse for failing to cast your ballot on the proscribed day.
Originally posted by kozmo
WTF!?!? The CONSTITUTION... you may remember is the document upon which ALL laws are built, states that voting is reserved for the first Tuesday in November. To accomodate those who cannot make it to the polls, Absentee Voter laws were passed. A logical exception would be active military who do not have simple access to either Absentee Voter Ballots or the polls themsleves. Laziness is NOT an excuse for failing to cast your ballot on the proscribed day. Neither is "Convenience".
Democrat motto: Vote early and vote often!
People in the military are not a special class of citizen, every Ohioan should have the same equal opportunity to vote.
Why do you support taking my opportunity to vote away and giving it to another?
Because I'm a lowly civilian?
1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Romney’s spokesman, Ryan Williams, in an interview Saturday could point to no place in Obama’s lawsuit that seeks to restrict the rights of military voters…
Romney’s legal counsel, Katie Biber, said creating two separate classes of Ohio voters does not violate the 14th Amendment, though she also did not offer evidence that Obama’s lawsuit would make it tougher for members of the military to vote…
Plaintiffs bring this lawsuit to restore in-person early voting for all Ohioans during the three days prior to Election Day – a right exercised by an estimated 93,000 Ohioans in the last presidential election. Ohio election law, as currently enacted by the State of Ohio and administered by Defendant Ohio Secretary of State, arbitrarily eliminates early voting during the three days prior to Election Day for most Ohio voters, a right previously available to all Ohio voters.
At a recent meeting of the Pennsylvania GOP State Committee, the top Republican in the state House of Representatives, Mike Turzai, declared that a new requirement for voters to show identification with a photograph on it “is going to allow Gov. [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” He drew wild applause from Republicans in the crowd.
According to a July report from the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth, more than 758,000 voters statewide do not have the necessary photo identification cards issued by the State Department of Transportation. President Obama won the state by about 600,000 votes in 2008.
“There have been no investigations of prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states,” according to official state papers sent to the court.
Originally posted by seeker1963
reply to post by RealSpoke
People in the military are not a special class of citizen, every Ohioan should have the same equal opportunity to vote.
Why do you support taking my opportunity to vote away and giving it to another?
Because I'm a lowly civilian?
Obviously you were never in the military! If you were, you would know that you just can't walk up to you CO (that is Commanding Officer) and say, hey, I have a right to vote, so I want to go now!
As for taking your vote away...................are you being dramatic??? Just how in the hell is allowing the military a courtesy to have their vote counted against your duty (or laziness) to go out and vote or at least get an absentee ballot?
Hey! If you want to consider yourself a "lowly cilivian" then that is all on you, not me!
Originally posted by Domo1
This seems pretty cut and dry to me. Active duty get 3 days, then so should everyone else. It's not hurting the process at all. I do think the only reason to rescind the 3 day period for us 'normies' would be out of fear. I don't like admitting it, but there ya go.
Originally posted by TsukiLunar
There is no reason that there should not be three days to vote for Ohians. These laws have been in place for years and were instated because Ohio previously had a lot of issues with their voting system. While the early voting did not solve all of the problems, it definitely helped.
This is a transparent attempt by the GOP to pull out a win from Ohio, a swing state. If they really cared about their citizens ability to vote they should have reformed their system during a time when huge votes were not coming up.
Instead, three months before the election, they change the rules for no reason.
Between 2005 and 2011, Ohio successfully administered an early voting system that included in-person voting in the three days prior to Election Day. This early voting system increased participation among voters, including those for whom work or family obligations make it difficult to vote on Election Day, and reduced the congestion that caused such severe waits during the 2004 presidential election in Ohio that some citizens were effectively denied the right to vote.
Typically a voter must request an absentee ballot at least a week before the election occurs.
Originally posted by TsukiLunar
Why early voting helped the process.
mediamatters.org...
Between 2005 and 2011, Ohio successfully administered an early voting system that included in-person voting in the three days prior to Election Day. This early voting system increased participation among voters, including those for whom work or family obligations make it difficult to vote on Election Day, and reduced the congestion that caused such severe waits during the 2004 presidential election in Ohio that some citizens were effectively denied the right to vote.
The big problem with absentee ballots.
en.wikipedia.org...
Typically a voter must request an absentee ballot at least a week before the election occurs.