Ohio voter fraud

[DrLeftover]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.



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A source, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a volunteer outside the Morse Road polling center. She has witnessed Somalis who cannot speak English come to the polling center. They are brought in groups, by van or bus. The Democrats hand them a slate card and say, “vote Brown all the way down.” Given that Sherrod Brown is the incumbent Democrat Senator in Ohio, one can assume that this is the reference.

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/26/is-voter-fraud-being-committed-in-ohio/

 

[Jazzy]

This is exactly why every voter should have a photo I.D. and proof of citizenship.



How can you be a U.S. citizen and not be able to read, write and speak English?

 

[DrLeftover]

My guess is: be willing to vote for the Democrats.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

The whole literacy as a measurement of citizenship goes back to the fifteenth amendment and how blacks in the South were so discouraged from voting. I don’t agree with those who try to equate speaking English and American citizenship. Ironically, under the banner of nationalistic identity, those attitudes are exclusive and dangerously border on on fascist implications.



I can somewhat understand the presentation of a valid I.D. (although, even that is aimed at disenfranchising vulnerable populations). However, as this article did address, voter suppression laws do little to prevent voter fraud. And further, how can these laws be justified in states where voter fraud is rare to begin with?

My guess is: be willing to vote for the Democrats.

Ironically, even in my own state, where, if I consider the landscape, we are a state which is decidedly conservative in areas outside Philly and Pittsburgh - where a good percentage of our rural population is elderly and would likely vote Republican if not for the efforts of the conservative base which effectively ensures they remain a disenfranchised demographic.

“Honestly, what’s it say about our electoral system when, even if I exercise my right to turn an elderly or enfeebled U.S. citizen away because he doesn’t have a driver’s license, it basically means nothing. That’s not democracy.”

-- Pennsylvania Republican Elections Officer Donald Tobin

http://www.theonion....t-suppre,29678/