This is doing the rounds of facebook, summing up what Builder and I were talking about yesterdayish
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sozobe
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Thu 8 Nov, 2012 08:10 am
Remember the whole Jon Husted thing? Ohio's secretary of state issuing a decree on the Friday evening before the election about provisional ballots?
That whole thing went in front of a judge yesterday and the judge was NOT amused:
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday angrily demanded that attorneys for Ohio's elections chief name the author of an election-eve order that placed the responsibility of explaining what kind of identification voters use on provisional ballots on the voters themselves.
U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley's voice rose nearly to a shout at times as he asked attorneys what research the Ohio Secretary of State's office had done before issuing Friday's after-hours order.
"You have a lot of explaining to do," Marbley told assistant Ohio attorney general Aaron Epstein at a hearing in Columbus the morning after the election. A few minutes later, he demanded that Epstein and other state attorneys explain the rationale behind the order.
"Show me the facts that the secretary used to make the decision to change this directive at 7 o'clock on a Friday night on the eve of an election," Marbley said. "I want to see it, and I want to see it now."
Maybe the judge can throw some books at him before the electorate does. My FB page lit up last weekend over his directive. There was all sorts of ugliness being sought to his personhood.
I hope Marbley throws the book at them, and throw them into prison for a very long duration to send a message to other GOP Secreatary of State. That kind of voter suppression doesn't belong in this country.
