Come on. “illegal voter” is a gentrified way to say spick or wetback. That’s all. Let’s stop pretending there’s noble reasons behind America’s retrograde movement on race and ethnicity. Like Lee Atwater ( the infamous GOP dirt-bag ) said “by 1968 you can’t say nigger. That hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing or states rights”…
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Another, far bigger crux, I fear:
I’d wager that, just like in Florida between 1999 and 2001, the real point of these purges is to use legit lists of folks not eligible to vote to disenfranchise those with the same or similar names who are eligible to vote. Florida even went so far to use felon lists … from Texas!
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what in the hell is that new post in the editor’s blog even trying to say
Earlier this week, LaRose announced an expanded effort to remove non-citizens from the voting rolls, highlighting in his announcement that the Secretary of State’s Public Integrity Division and Office of Data Analytics and Archives identified 137 possible non-citizen voters through records from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
But LaRose failed to mention that Ohio has around 8 million registered voters, meaning 137 possible discrepancies is less than 0.002 percent of the total number of registered voters — a figure that only serves to highlight how secure the state’s elections are.
So in this hunt for non-citizens voting SOS LaRose found 137 “possible discrepancies”. So how many of these 137 actually voted? And how much of the taxpayer’s dollars went into this investigation? Could also ask in how many elections were determined by just 137 voters?
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Repubs are the solution looking for a problem.
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More importantly, is there any reason to believe that these 137 were not allowed to vote? Given that about a thousand people in Ohio each month acquire US citizenship, and DMV (or in Ohio, BMV) records may be outdated.
Sorry, but focusing on how small the numbers are is the wrong move, as it gives credence to the original claim that those 137 were not allowed to vote.
Any “data mining” exercises that compares voter rolls to DMV records will always find a number of people on the rolls who the DMV lists as non-citizens even though they are citizens. Republicans know that, which is why they run these exercises. We and the media need to stop falling for that.
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I thought they had done all possible damage in the run-up to the 2004 election. In effect, Ken Blackwell handed the presidency to W after Katherine Harris gave it to the guy in 2000. Ken Blackwell’s Disgraceful Election Machinations (citybeat.com)
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Brain drain. Many of the college educated got their degree and fled the state (myself included).
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Having read the TX SOS report on the 2020 audit, it ended reporting the number of errors to be 138. Given that the Audit was of 4 counties with a total of 4,526,369 the infinitesimal error rate, I cannot wait for Cruz et al to start whining.
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In Arizona to register to vote one must prove citizenship status. When voting it is the same thing with an added layer. An election worker will ask the potential voter to sign their name next to the printed version of it on a list of approved voters in the precinct. It’s a low tech way to prevent someone voting more than once. No problem.
These days I vote by mail-in ballot. I still hafta sign my name as before next to a printed version.
AZ also thinks this non problem needs fixing… cuz reasons.
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Never proved that any of them voted at all, just that they were supposedly incorrectly registered to vote.
Even if they had, that’s not enough to swing even a local race.
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Having been born and raised in said area, I can tell you the locals aren’t blameless in this trend. Too many people were happy to vote over and over for people who demonstrably made their communities worse. As long as those politicians said the right thing and hated the right people, it didn’t matter that they were also destroying the local economies.
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I do wonder if they looked at FL voter rolls to check on the snowbirds’ double voting…
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Just need to check The Villages and you’ll likely find more illegal voting than the entire state of Ohio.
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I was indeed thinking of The Villages Four, but likely plenty in other FL spots too.
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Has the issue of Biden being able to appear on the Ohio election ballot late in the election cycle been resolved yet?
Is the Ohio GOP still planning on leaving Biden’s name off the ballot because the deadline for the presidential ballot is before the Democratic convention where Biden will become the official nominee?
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But her emails….
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Republicans no longer believe in elections. And they will stop at nothing to rig the results!
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It isn’t the GOP planning anything; it’s a pre-existing state law that the Democratic Party ignored when they scheduled the national convention. There was a bill in the Ohio legislature just last week to move the deadline, but Democrats moved to adjourn the session before voting on it because they wanted a “clean” bill. Republicans viewed the situation as an opportunity to get something and had added some campaign finance rules into it that the Dems weren’t happy about. There’s plenty of foot-shooting going on with the Democrats in this.
My understanding is that the Ohio Democratic Party could hold its own nominating convention before the relevant deadline to ensure Biden gets on the ballot. I assume they’re not talking loudly about that possibility because taking that route would take some air out of the national convention. The final batch of primaries/caucuses is June 8th, so any time after that the delegate vote is largely locked in and no reasonable person could complain that their voice in the nominating process is being sidelined if Ohio holds a separate convention prior to the national one.
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