#john husted

[authorkims]

‘Miss Sassy’ Is Safe: JD Vance’s Pet-Eating Hoax Hits Another Embarrassing Snag

Miss Sassy was feared to have been kitty-napped by Haitian migrants amid Springfield, Ohio’s pet-eating hoax. Now we know where she’s really

[authorkims]

Michael McGovern on Twitter

“During the HB 6 fight @MikeDeWine asked FirstEnergy to fund a super PAC for his daughter. Of course, they complied. Did he promise them any

Michael McGovern on Twitter

“The fact is, DeWine played a huge role in the scandal. He's either complicit, or too weak to stand up to the corruption in our state. More

US Attorney Southern District of Ohio on Twitter

“#BREAKING: FirstEnergy charged federally, agrees to terms of deferred prosecution settlement. Company must continue to fully cooperate with

Dirk Schwenk (Esq) 🎵 on Twitter

“I'm glad prosecutors are forcing this statement. It can be used to provide a legislative basis for future action (which will hopefully sur

Andrew Tobias on Twitter

“A new $1 billion tax? Ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder had ‘Plan B’ ready to block repeal of nuclear bailout https://t.co/FiFSRscL8

Jeremy Pelzer on Twitter

“Gov. Mike DeWine knew about FirstEnergy’s $4.3M payment to Sam Randazzo before Randazzo resigned https://t.co/npeIiWBgWT”

Dave Anderson on Twitter

“This did not age well: PUCO's attorney examiner said he didn't believe PUCO considered FirstEnergy's payments to former PUCO chairman Sam R

Dave Anderson on Twitter

“We know why FirstEnergy doesn’t want PUCO to dig deeper into shady payments that may get passed onto customers customers https://t.co/vBnLu

Ohio Capital Journal on Twitter

“After FirstEnergy officials told Randazzo they would pay him $4.3 million, Randazzo texted them back. “Made me laugh – you guys are welcom

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Not sure if anyone explained yet, but i thought i'd send a message for you. Basically what John Husted did was he removed a huge portion of democratic voters from the role call, which lists the people in the area registered to vote. This makes it much more difficult for those people to vote, and i'm assuming he did this in an effort to make democratic voters simply walk out without voting. Hope this helped!

Thank you for explaining. I don’t know the laws regarding this, but I doubt it was ethical. People should not need to jump through lots of hoops in order to exercise their constitutional right to vote.

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been reading on the ohio situation. Basically, it means they called "potential voter fraud" suspiciously around the time a bunch of inner city minorities got registered and have, as a result, purged all of the registrations for "investigative purposes." Funny how that only happens when it involves minorities attempting to get registered.

UGH. It’s horrible how many people are against minorities voting. And that they have the gall to act on their racism! America is not whites-only, and they need to get over it.

[thenewpolitical]

GOP Ensures Undemocratic Voting Policy

By Kaleb Carter 

October 5, 2014

Protect the Voting Rights Act rally at the SCOTUS. Photo courtesy of Flickr user SEIU.

Voting restrictions in the state are a staple of the current conservative Ohio General Assembly and state executives who have promoted undemocratic policy.

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has helped push across and will try to enforce a restriction on early voting in Ohio. Senate Bill 238 eliminated “Golden Week,” a week-long period in which Ohioans could vote and register to vote at the same time.

U.S. District Court Judge Peter C. Economus ruled on Sept. 4 that the restriction of early-voting violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered the restoration of those early-voting days. Section two of the VRA (which Economus used to legitimize his position) is concerned with prohibiting discrimination as it pertains to race, ethnicity or membership within a minority group.

Senate Bill 238 was discriminatory in that it aimed to cut voting hours. Why is this discriminatory? Because Republicans, who control the Ohio General Assembly, fully realize that more hours mean more opportunities for urban voters who tend to lean Democratic. Cutting hours limits accessibility for working class voters.

The Supreme Court followed with a 5-4 decision that stayed the lower court’s decision, which means that early-voting will begin on Oct. 7 instead of Sept. 30. The four consistent SCOTUS conservatives (and Anthony Kennedy) provided the majority opinion to stay the lower courts’ decision, which results directly in the limiting of the early-voting period.

As noted in a Huffington Post article by Samantha Lachman,  “Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) and Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) had asked the court, in an emergency appeal, to reverse or delay a federal appeals courtruling last week that restored the so-called ‘Golden Week,’ when voters could register and cast a ballot at the same time.”

“On behalf” of Ohioans, Husted and the AG office appealed the decision to a three-judge panel of the Federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals who have since refused to hear the case.

Husted, Attorney General Mike DeWine and Governor John Kasich are all in this together. They are also all up for re-election in November. Nina Turner, David Pepper, and Ed FitzGerald, the floor is yours on this farce. Use these undemocratic restrictions to your advantage for your campaigns.

http://thenewpolitical.com/gop-ensures-undemocratic-voting-policy/

[sarahlee310-blog]

The Columbus Free Press is reporting that the chair of the Ohio Green Party has filed a lawsuit seeking injunctive relief and the removal of shady software patches which Secretary of State John Husted ordered installed into voting machines in several Ohio counties (Democratic strongholds like Cleveland and Columbus, obvs.). The hearing is at 9 am tomorrow.

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Dear Mr. Husted,

The only reason we have early voting in this state is that we failed to equip our precincts with reasonable numbers of voting machines on Election Day in the past. And, shockingly, those precincts always seemed to be in urban areas. Your attempts at voter suppression used to be a lot more subtle. Maybe if Ohio would have done things ethically the first time, then your latest attempt at voter suppression wouldn't have come back to bite you in the ass.  Sincerely,  Thank you, Justice Kagan, for seeing past the bullshit.