Fighting Against RON
While a former Republican operative and fund-raiser is now facing a federal indictment for alleged improper campaign donations, the party itself is turning its focus to Ohio’s statewide issues that will be on the ballot November 8th. The issues seek to reform absentee ballots, campaign finance, redistricting and elections commissions, and some say they will take the power away from the voters, and give it to bureaucrats.
Saturday night, a Lucas County Republican Party phone bank urged a “no” vote on the four state issues. “[The issues put] control into the hands of appointed boards and bureaucrats,” said Doug Haynam, interim chairman of the Lucas County GOP. Local Republicans believe issues 2, 3, 4, and 5 are a desperate attempt by outsiders to dismantle a decade of Republican control in Ohio. “They are branding themselves as Ohioans trying to reform Ohio, covering corruption with corruption,” said Alexandra Hertel, from Ohio First, a group opposing the amendments. Read the rest HERE.
Olmoss said,
Wrote on October 31, 2005 @ 10:08 am
Man, I don’t know about the ‘politics’ of it, but if we go to ‘Mail balloting’ we are in real trouble and will never get rid of it.
I have been following the problems in Seattle at http://www.soundpolitics.com/ and the problems they have with multiple mailed in ballots. Oregon, where it was supposed to increase voter turn out finds it has the same ‘rate’ of voting as states without.. and down in Texas folks were dumping whole bags of ballots from ‘the wrong part of town’.
No way. Voting is a civic duty worth the trouble of taking your ‘real self’ down to the polls.