It has been fairly widely reported that fifteen military groups have filed a “motion to intervene” in the Obama for America vs. Husted case. I posted a diary last week claiming that the Obama campaign was suing to disenfranchise military voters. Since that time there have been various comments (including in response to my diary) citing an apparently unimpeachable source: Snopes, which has apparently debunked | Read More »
[promoted from the diaries as part of the Ambitious Writer's Program] On paper, the lawsuit is filed in federal court as Obama for America v. Husted. If you read the content of the complaint, it should actually be called Obama v. the U.S. Troops. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday: “Obama for America, the U.S. president’s re-election campaign committee, sued two Ohio officials over changes to state law | Read More »
The Democrats, with an assist from the Republicans, have made a mess of the Ohio primaries. That’s primaries – plural. In addition to the March 6th primary for the Senate and other state and local races, Ohio will also hold a second primary on June 12th for House races and presidential candidates. Maybe. This all started in November, 2010, when the GOP swept the Ohio | Read More »
In March the Ohio House passed HB 159, which introduced reasonable reforms to secure Ohio’s election process, one of which was to require a photo ID in order to vote in person. Parts of the bill were passed into law in June. However, the GOP-controlled senate and Republican Secretary of State, Jon Husted, balked at the photo ID requirement and it’s been held up in | Read More »
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