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Yesterday, I went
to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website; I wanted to double-check the
rescheduled date when voters could go to their respective polling places to
mark their ballots. The date I marked on my
calendar was June 2. That date was not
on the website, so I planned to phone the BoE today. No need.
Susan Daniels at American Thinker is a few steps ahead of me:
The residents of Ohio are getting
screwed. They have not been informed that voting day has been moved
up from June 2 to April 28. No notice from the county to anyone and
nothing in the media.
The primary election in
Ohio was set for March 10, 2020. Then someone in Columbus,
without explanation, changed the date to March 17, St. Patrick's
Day. [Note: some of the comments at the link at Lucianne raise questions about the accuracy of this sequence. -D] The cynical among us believe that the hope was that fewer
voters would turn out that day, with the Cleveland parade and all, which of
course was canceled for the first time in 178 years.
Except that lifelong politician and
governor Mike DeWine canceled elections at 3:30 A.M. on the 17th
itself. He had gone to court earlier that day to try to stop the
primary. DeWine said he would go along with the judge's
decision. The judge said "no," and all of a sudden, the
judge's decision was unimportant.
It took DeWine's cronies until 3:30
A.M. to get four Ohio Supreme Court judges to agree by phone to call off
voting. (Was that even legal?) DeWine set the new date as
June 2. Then on March 25, the General Assembly passed H.B. 197,
resetting the date to April 28, 2020.
If you have not voted early,
residents are no longer allowed to go to the Geauga Board of Elections (BOE),
where I live, but instead have to follow a complicated procedure, which I learned
about by accident. The county has not informed the voters; the
media have never mentioned it.
You can vote only by mail
now. But before you can vote, you first have to get an application
(mailed or faxed to you) to apply for a ballot. You then fill out
that application, and it must be mailed to the
BOE. Then they will mail you a ballot. After you fill out
your ballot, it then must be mailed back to the BOE. And
all this has to be done in less than a month. What could possibly go
wrong?
And where are all the votes that were already cast being securely kept?
Ms. Daniels is right to ask if any of this is even legal. In essence, Ohio voters have been deprived of their right to vote at their polling place on Election Day. The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website
confirms: “No in-person voting at
polling locations.”
To request your
ballot by mail, go to your Board of Election website; click here for the Ohio
directory.
UPDATE 1:55pm: Cleveland.com headline
UPDATE 1:55pm: Cleveland.com headline
Ohio Secretary of State preparing to mail
vote-by-mail
instructions for state’s delayed primary
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