Re: Florida Lost ballots

  Justin Oelgoetz?! Holy crap! That's a name I haven't heard in a while.

  A new pet peeve of mine... So, on Election Day anyone stumping for a
candidate/issue must remain 50' feet away from the polling place. This is
to reduce intimidation, etc. Good rule. However, there is no rule barring
people from holding signs/campaigning at EARLY polling places that are open
before Election Day. So, there's a gaggle of annoying people waving signs
and being classless outside the courthouse right now. Standing right next
to the voters in line.

----Original Message Follows----
From: Justin Oelgoetz <oelgoetz@astronomy.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: election2004@teuse.net
To: election2004@teuse.net
Subject: Re: [Election2004] Florida Lost ballots
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:50:40 -0400 (EDT)

>In Ohio I can vote at the wrong polling place and the county/state has to
>sort it out and count my vote. In Michigan (I think it was Michigan, one of
>the neighbors of Ohio anyway) if I vote in the wrong polling place its just
>thrown out. I'm not arguing about which one is better or worse just thats
>its inconsistant.

Appellate court ruled that Ohio will be following the, 'provisional' voting
form only counts if it is at the right polling place, or if it is cast down
town at the board of elections office. This is what out Republican
Secretary of State wanted - I think the case was Democratic Party of Ohio v.
Kenneth Blackwell, or something to that effect. Dems choose not to appeal,
so it will stand come Tuesday. Current fighting is over whether or not
local boards of elections can hear challenges to voter registrations. Dems
sued and got a lower court to order Blackwell to order the local boards to
stop hearing challenges. Thus far Blackwell hasn't complied, although the
deadline for complying is sometime later today.

Only bright side of the whole mess here is that Columbus has more hotels and
restaurants for the press than Tallahasse did, and since the Ohio
State-Michigan game is here this year, the zoo here may be a slightly more
comfortable zoo, but unless the polls are wrong, a zoo it will be. Aside
from that Blackwell makes Kathrine Harris look like a liberal, and has a
nack for side stepping, or plain old out politicking, the
Moderate-Republican Governor, and as such will no doubt be called a partisan
whether his intentions are honorable or not.

From Mary Poppin's neighborhood,

Justin

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Justin Oelgoetz
Graduate Student, Chemical Physics Program, The Ohio State University
E-Mail Addys: joelgoet@chemistry.ohio-state.edu or
               oelgoetz@astronomy.ohio-state.edu
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               http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~oelgoetz/
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