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[Indiana Secretary of State Todd] Rokita, of course, is an outspoken defender of one of the strictest photo ID laws in the nation. In the weeks leading up to the election, he also recommended filing charges related to bad voter registrations delivered by ACORN, the community activist group.
Then, a funny thing happened to Rokita on the way to voting:
His own absentee ballot was challenged by precinct poll workers.
According to Marion County election officials, his messily inscribed signature upon checking in to vote — he signed it "Todd Rokita" — did not match his neat poll book signature of "Theodore Rokita."
So what did poll workers do?
Well, they placed his ballot in a pile of provisional ballots that do not get counted until the Election Board can review the challenges one at a time after Election Day. (The board decided Friday that Rokita’s ballot will indeed count in the official final tally.)
Ed Treacy, the Marion County Democratic chairman, said he thought it was "hysterical" that Rokita’s vote was challenged.
"This is a person who does everything he can to repress every vote he can," Treacy said. "Now maybe he’ll be able to really appreciate the sanctity of the vote."
Indiana’s Vote-Suppressing GOP Sec. of State Gets A Taste Of His Own Medicine |
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| By: Phoenix Woman Sunday November 9, 2008 2:35 pm | |
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HA-ha
(Nelson voce)
As they say, “Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.”
I hoped he learned from this experience. With luck, it will be the right stuff, not the conservative stuff.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha All the way to the polls!!
he has the last laugh, he doesn’t give a flying hoot about his single vote, all he cares about is how many he prevented from counting
the only thing that would hurt this man or teach him a leson would be if we could demonstrate the republicans lost votes becuase of his depravity
anything else is a joke to him
What a moron. You can make up the rules, enforce the rules, but rules only apply if you’re not a Republican, apparently.
Um, no.
Rokita is a piece of work. We Hoosiers are used to him. but, Ed Treacy is no Angel though.
Thanks PW.
This is Humor! This is Comedy!
My daughter is attending Earlham College in Richmond IN. She registered to vote last May, then went to other sectors of the planet for the summer. Went to early vote to find she wasn’t on the roles. Seems the Indiana Registrars office sent a confirmation note out and her college sent it back undelivered, so they deleted her.
When she went to the county courthouse to vote, she took her registration receipt. She demanded a provisional ballot and was told she didn’t qualify since she wasn’t on the roles. When she pointed out that she had a right to vote provisionally by federal law, she was told she could leave now or the police would escort her to the door.
She went to the BMV (DMV in Indiana), only to be told she had to have FOUR forms of ID: a picture ID, her original social security card, her birth certificate, and a second picture ID! And that she’d have to show her “proven intent” to make her permanent home in Indiana, not just attend college (against federal law and a SCOTUS decision).
I sent her the pertinent laws, some of them on Secretary of State and Attorney General letterhead, and the federal law.
It took her two days and several threats of arrest, but thanks to a Democratic lawyer volunteer at the polling place who made several phone calls to the SoS’s office, she finally was allowed to vote, although the best she could do was vote a provisional ballot.
The Indiana authorities sent her off with this parting message: she now had ten days “to defend her right to vote”.
What a state. She loves the people she’s met in Indiana, for the most part, and has toyed with the idea of having some involvement in Indiana after undergrad. Not any more.
quite a story there mark, no imagine how many were denied and didn’t have the knowledge to get their vote counted