29-10-2008, 07:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 29-10-2008, 07:42 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Myra Bronstein Wrote:Here's a related news item that's sort of unusual, in that it's uplifting:
http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_n...ml?sid=101
"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that aren't buildings as their addresses. U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can't be invalidated because of poll worker errors.
Monday's ruling resolved the final two pieces of a settlement between the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.
The coalition agreed to drop a constitutional challenge to Ohio's voter identification law until after the Nov. 4 election. In return, Brunner and the coalition agreed on procedures to verify provisional ballots across all Ohio counties.
The coalition was concerned that unequal treatment of provisional ballots would disenfranchise some voters."
Myra, I've seen a few such rulings in the last months and does remind one that not all judges who believe in justice and the law [what a concept!] have not yet been purged, but all too many have - more so at the upper levels of the Judicial. Now to get rid of the electronic voting machines and the other ballot challenges.
For me this is a very personal issue, as my registration is not a 'normal' physical home, and I had to fight to get registered and not [yet] challenged or purged. I'm still suspicious why my original request for an absentee ballot was 'lost'. (And I'm registered in Colorado - one of the most contested states this time!)
I think the plan was to eventually move from a one-person-one-vote system to a one-dollar-one-vote system (though we have more-or-less) already. "Those who own the country ought to govern it." - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the U.S., 1787