Voter Purge in ground-zero Ohio

by Jerome Armstrong, Tue Jul 20, 2004 at 08:02:05 AM EDT

They say that Ohio is the Florida of 2004, and the candidate's buying of advertising reflects that (NJ Hotline):Actions have always spoken louder than rhetoric when it comes to campaign strategy and today's analysis of TV ad spending in all 210 U.S. media markets shows the campaigns haven't lied about one thing: OH is EVERYTHING in this WH campaign.

According to Neilsen data examined by the WI Advertising Project, four of the top 5 most advertised markets all are in OH (Toledo, Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland). Not a single FL market is in the top 10 for Bush, Kerry or the Dem 527s.

And similar to Florida in 2000, the all-Republican Ohio state government is doing their Republican part, by purging the lists of Ohio voters.

Hopefully this matter gets looked into, not only by the Citizens for Legitimate Government, but also by the Democratic Party:

Note that over 105,000 voters were purged because they had not voted in 4 years, including 2 federal election cycles....

If 110,000 voters can be purged from the rolls in one critical county, how many were purged in the other 87 Ohio counties since the 2000 election? Are the same tests used in every other county? Who has access to the list of purged names? What percentage were black or Hispanic? How do they match the felony conviction to the registered voter?

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Ohio = The New Florida?
there are many circumstances under which Ohio could be the deciding factor in this election, and with voter purges like this, it is starting to look like it will be. I wonder what the voting machiens are like in the state.
by Chris Bowers 2004-07-20 08:39AM | 0 recs
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Re: Voting Machines
Ohio could be worse than Florida if that is the case. Ugh.
by Chris Bowers 2004-07-20 10:00AM | 0 recs
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Not in Lorain, Trumbull, or Hardin.
The (Republican) Secretary of State said that these counties may not use Diebold machines.

Of course, the fact that these machines have lower undervote rates than the current voting technology in the very Democratic counties of Lorain and Trumbull had nothing to do with it.  He's simply concerned with the security of our elections.

Not, you know, ensuring that about 2% of the ballots are munged in heavily Democratic counties.

by Drew 2004-07-20 12:47PM | 0 recs

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