GOP Preparing for Ohio Poll Challenges

Looks like the Ohio GOP is getting ready to be a royal pain in the ass on election day.  We've talked about this before, I realize, but today the Dayton Daily News ran a front page story on the crap going on.

The Ohio GOP on Friday filed 35,000 pre-election challenges in 65 of the 88 counties to combat what they call widespread voter registration fraud. Since then, about 15,000 in six counties have been withdrawn by the party or thrown out by county boards of elections because of filing errors by the Republicans.

The challenges are based on mail to new voters returned by the U.S. Postal Service as undeliverable.

I love their technique for determining if you're a fraudulent voter or not. I wonder what the thought process was like for coming up with this plan.

Repub 1:  "The Dems have too many new voters, how do we stop them?"
Repub 2:  "They can't all vote for Kerry"
Repub 1:  "But how do we know that?"
Repub 2:  "We'll send them some propoganda in the mail that'll show them who the true leader is"

A week later...

Repub 1:  "Hey, 35,000 of these mailings came back"
Repub 2:  "They must be terrorists.  We can't let them vote"
Repub 3:  "Yes, we'll challenge their votes and stuff up the lines at the polling places.  Great plan Dr. Evil"

The Republicans tried hard to disenfranchise these 35,000 voters before election day, but that plan backfired when over 15,000 of the challenges were thrown out.

By declaring the GOP's challenges invalid, Bennett said, "all they (election boards) are doing is pushing it back on the polls, where the challenges are going to take place. Theoretically, these people should never show up (to vote), but if they do, they're likely to be challenged."

Yep, that sounds like a Republican to me.  These registered voters should never show up to vote, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let them.

Fortunately we're well prepared for the Republican tricks here in Montgomery County.  I hope the rest of the state is as well.