It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee – a big black pot of it! The faction of folks moving to unseat Obama, or as they call it, elect Romney, is moving decisively. Yes, every vote counts, and in this election every non-vote counts for the other side.
If you didn’t believe that every vote counts, the GOP’s latest maneuver to eke out every angle possible to distribute a balance favorable to them in this all-important November election, the picture has become less blurry – and it’s not a pretty one!
The right to vote inOhiohas atrociously been twisted and turned to the point that it reeks of political wrangling at its worst. The who, when, where and how voters can make their voices heard as been manipulated to a shameful atrocity.
The latest foolery to befallOhiovoters is the limitations placed on the early and extended voting process. For years, Election Day in heavily populated urban and democratic areas has been a hot mess. The arbitrary late opening and early closing of polls was notorious. Voting machine error and human error in ballot counting (and often non-counting) has been historically awful. The long and arduous lines in Black neighborhoods were often seen in stark contrast to their White counterparts, which seemed to be more of a day at the beach. Then, as if a gift from the civil rights gods of days-gone-by, early voting and expanded hours, including nights and weekends, was to provide a much needed option to the restrictive 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. poll hours.
Unfortunately, gridlocked along party lines at the Board of Elections and settled by the stroke of the heavy electorate hand ofOhio’s (republican) Secretary of State John Husted, we inCuyahogaCountyfind ourselves regulated to the restrictive hours that we so despised … but guess what? InOhiocounties likeButlerand Warren, which more-than-likely go republican, the GOP saw fit to approve the “day at the beach” voting hours on nights and weekends.
What this says is that while the GOP find the extended voting hours a good thing in counties that go republican, they find the process bad and move to strike it down in areas that go democratic. But what it really means is that the GOP is operating with the unmitigated gall of unashamed partisan politics to hamstring the urban vote, the poll access for Black people and ultimately an Obama re-election!
It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee – a big black pot of it! The faction of folks moving to unseat Obama, or as they call it, elect Romney, is moving decisively. Yes, every vote counts, and in this election every non-vote counts for the other side.
Find out where, when and how you vote. Make sure you are registered. Don’t play around with this, because as you can see, the other guys are definitely not!
