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I know that the MSM is just about almost orgasmic about tonights debate, which I may or may not watch, but there is other news to be reported.
From Huffingtonpost,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/supreme-court-ohio-early-voting_n_1970603.html
this story of how
Ohio’s Secretary of State John Husted had refused to enforce last week’s appellate court decision, in which a three-judge panel came down on the side of the Obama campaign and blocked a law that would have limited early voting.
And, how The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a last-gasp appeal by Ohio Republicans and approved early voting for Ohio residents on the weekend before Election Day.
So there!
I’m just a tad upset with all the negatives in this election. People urging others not to vote, Paul Ryan faking that dishwashing effort at the Food Bank bs photo op, and the increase of I took a poop today diaries showing up and pushing important stories off the radar.
I think this is an important ruling which could affect the outcome of the current race maybe even more than the outcome of tonight’s debate.
Just an old hippie girl hiding up in the foothills with something to share once in a while.
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I wonder how this ruling today indicates what might happen with other issues in front of the Court.
Thanks demi. I’m a bit disgusted with th3e misdirection, voter suppression efforts and naked racism going on this cycle too. In my opinion though, I think Husted should be arrested. Isn’t that the second time he has refused a court order to make the weekend voting happen?
Let’s go get him, hon.
You want the gun or the badge?
And, thanks. You doing okay, relatively speaking?
David Dayen’s got a thread on this story, also.
happy news for sure
I’m still numb demi. This week hasn’t seemed real to me.
Talking to you and some other people has helped me in knowing I’m not the only one feeling so physically and mentally Off.
We’re not stupid. We know about mortality, and yet, it hit’s us like a fricking ton of bricks on our chest. And, the mind reels.
Yup, El.
hey demi,
And Thompson the senior says that Thompson the junior, didn’t say what he sayed on the tape. We was all just listening incorrectly and putting racist notions in our own ears. MSM calling it a “birther,” comment makes it so much less offensive.
Have not heard much from RNC emptychair Rinse Repeat Priebus except that he and Ryan and the rest learned all what they know from Tommy the teacher.
Hey Demi. So much poop and little space betwixt.
My dear steel your self for much more.
In the end spill love it’s all we got.
This is a far more important development than any of these anti-democratic kabuki debates. After all, if the debates include only two candidates who agree on most important questions then they’re not really debates at all, now are they?
In 2008 Democratic voters swarmed to the polls the weekend before the election. Many low-income voters who could not take Tuesday off to vote and didn’t vote by mail for whatever reason(procrastination probably being at the top of the list) took advantage of being able to vote the weekend before. Black churches bused thousands of parishioners to the polls after Sunday service. Obama probably would have carried Ohio anyway, but early voting did have a significant impact.
So the Republicans were determined to keep that from happening again and pushed through a law banning early voting the weekend before the election with the exception of active duty military members and Americans abroad who could afford to fly in and vote that weekend.
The exceptions were such brazenly partisan violations of the Equal Protection Clause that the law was struck down as soon as the Obama campaign sued in Federal Court. So two classes of voters can vote the weekend before the election but nobody else can? Flagrant.
The arrogance of Secretary of State Husted, who is a bible-thumping right-winger to the max, was so over the top it was comical. For instance, he ignored a Federal subpoena. The judge let him know that if he didn’t show up the next day, the US Marshals would bring him in. He showed up and got chewed out from the bench. Then he said he could ignore the District Court ruling until after the appeals process was completed, and that cute little idea got nixed by a Court of Appeals panel.
And now the Supremes refuse to hear his case, allowing the lower court ruling to stand and enabling an estimated 100,000 Ohioans to vote election weekend. My guess is that about 90,000 of those people will probably vote for Obama.
You can stick a fork in Romney, he’s done in Ohio, and that makes his election almost mathematically impossible in the Electoral College.
That said, I already mailed in my Ohio ballot with Stewart Alexander’s circle inked in.
Recc’d for importance.