14 Nov 2012 3:13 pm
Judge Slaps Husteds Last-Minute Ballot Change In OhioOhio Secretary of State Jon Husteds last-minute change to how provisional ballots were handled violated the Constitution and Ohio election law, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.Husted ordered elections officials on Nov. 2 to only count a provisional ballot if the voter had noted what type of identification he or she was using. But U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley ruled that Husteds directive could disenfranchise voters and called it a flagrant violation of a state elections law, according to the Plain Dealer. Marbley noted that Husteds order came just days before the election, yet the secretary had previously told federal courts that he couldnt comply with other rulings because they were handed down too soon before the election.Marbley ruled that Husteds order violated a state law that puts the burden on poll workers to properly complete a provisional ballot form. He ordered Husted to issue a new directive by noon on Friday before officials begin counting the provisional ballots.The surreptitious manner in which the Secretary went about implementing this last minute change to the election rules casts serious doubt on his protestations of good faith, Marbley wrote.Husteds office said he planned to appeal the ruling, arguing it would allow potentially fraudulent votes to be counted.This guy tried everything he could to steal Ohio for Romney, even changing the rules on the Friday before the election.He failed.Romney Co-Chair: Voter ID Would Have Won Us WisconsinA state senator who served as co-chair of Mitt Romneys Wisconsin campaign suggested this week that the Republican presidential nominee would have carried the state if a voter ID law had been in place.Voter ID absolutely would have made a difference in the outcome of the election, state Sen. Alberta Darling [R] told Mike Gousha of WISN on Sunday. She suggested that voter fraud helped President Barack Obama win the state.Obama won more than 52 percent of the vote in Wisconsin. His margin of victory over Romney was more than 200,000 votes.Actually what she meant to say was not that voter fraud helped Obama win, but that voter disenfranchisement would have helped Romney win.