Butthole Bandits 7 and a throwback to Jim Crowe

[Lemur]

Well thank goodness there are Tea Party groups ready to monitor elections and keep things ... uh ... nevermind ...

Yesterday we reported that True the Vote was attempting to place observers at precincts in Central Ohio, focusing on African American districts. We also noted that there might be some problems with the forms they submitted to the Franklin County Board of Elections (FCBOE).

The FCBOE met today and determined that True the Vote had likely falsified the forms submitted for general election observers. The new observer forms, filed over the past few days by True the Vote representative (and Hilliard Tea Party Member) Jan Loar, used candidate signatures copied from a previous set of forms filed in early October

All but one (Scott Rupert, an independent for U.S. Senate) of the six candidates whose names appeared on the original form had withdrawn permission to use their signatures prior to the submission of today’s forms. During the BOE meeting Candidate Terri Jamison spoke up to say her name was “forged” on the latest round of forms.

The form for appointing observers reads ‘election falsification is a 5th degree felony’.

[Lemur]

As I have posted elsewhere, now is the time to talk seriously about voter ID and reforming/abolishing e-voting. Now. Not leading up to a national election.

If anyone in power makes an honest gesture toward vote reform now, I will be impressed.

Before? Not so much.

[Lemur]

An apt graphic:

[Papewaio]

So vote with your money seems to be the way to go.

[lars573]

Makes me so glad that when I vote it's on a piece of paper, that by law I'm required to put into the box myself.