{"id":1112,"date":"2004-09-28T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/28\/if-you-used-the-wrong-paper-stock-then-you-cant-vote\/"},"modified":"2004-09-28T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T18:19:09","slug":"if-you-used-the-wrong-paper-stock-then-you-cant-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"If you used the wrong paper stock, then you can't vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted a few days ago <\/a>about how well the Democrats are doing with voter registration in Ohio.<\/p>\n

Well, now the GOP is fighting back. Are they increasing their own registration efforts? No, of course not. Instead, they’ve dredged up an obsolete rule that voter registrations must be printed on 80-pound stock paper. From the Dayton Daily News<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The requirement is because the forms are designed to be mailed like post-cards and must be thick enough to survive mechanical sorters at the U.S. Post Office, according to Blackwell’s spokesman Carlo LoParo.<\/p>\n

“Our directive stands and it is specifically in place to protect new registrants to make sure the forms are not destroyed,” LoParo said.<\/p><\/div>\n

So in order to protect new registrants from having their registrations accidently destroyed in transit by the post office, any registration on the wrong paper stock that has already made it safely to the board of elections office <\/i>must be ignored.<\/p>\n

Couldn’t they even come up with a rational sounding excuse?<\/p>\n

The story explains that the rule is out-of-date:<\/p>\n

The heavy-weight paper was a requirement when the cards were kept for years, were used to keep track of when a person voted, and were the main way to check signatures to combat voter fraud and verify petitions. But many boards, including both Montgomery and Cuyahoga, scan the signatures into a computer database and no longer record voting history on the cards.<\/p>\n

The League of Women Voters of Ohio on Thursday called on Blackwell to clarify his position. League national president Kay Maxwell said she knows of no other states that are requiring the 80-pound paper stock for voter registration cards. “This is the first I’ve heard of it,” she said on Thursday in Columbus.<\/p><\/div>\n

Teh Republicans are also trying to interpret rules on provisional ballots more strictly than federal law requires. Anything to avoid counting votes, I guess.<\/p>\n

The other directive forbids poll workers from giving a provisional ballot unless the person can prove they live in that precinct. Peg Rosenfield, spokeswoman for the league, said she interprets federal to be less restrictive. Rosenfield says people who show up at the wrong precinct should be given a ballot and allowed to vote on the non-local races.<\/div>\n

Via MyDD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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