Ares
8th April 2016, 05:34 AM
A bombshell new report shows that the Republican establishment tried to illegally purge voters from the polls in the Buckeye State. The goal was to make anyone who hasn’t voted in the past three consecutive elections… a clear attack on voters who lean toward conservative businessman Donald J. Trump.
The purge of voters mostly affected blacks and other minority voters… in the Cleveland-area of Cuyahoga County alone, more than 40,000 voters were disqualified!
Ohio Governor John Kasich won his first Republican Presidential primary in a winner-take-all election. It’s clear local officials were willing to ensure his victory:
Ohio currently cancels the registration of people who don’t vote in three successive federal elections, or any of the intervening local elections — a procedure known as the Supplemental Process. Last year, around 40,000 people were removed from the rolls of Ohio’s largest county, Cuyahoga, a Democratic stronghold. Stuart Naifeh, a lawyer with Demos, said that suggests “tens or hundreds of thousands” of people were removed statewide last year alone.
“We have spoken to purged voters from around the state of Ohio who tried to vote in the November 2015 local election and were turned away,” said Freda Levenson, legal director for the ACLU of Ohio, in a statement. “The already widespread disenfranchisement that has resulted from this process is likely to be much worse in a presidential election year.”
The lawsuit, filed by the ACLU of Ohio and Demos, a voting rights organization, on behalf of two Ohio-based community groups, claims that the practice violates the National Voter Registration Act, known as Motor Voter. Motor Voter bars states from using a process that leads to people being removed solely for failing to vote, without any other reason to believe a person has moved. The suit also says Ohio’s use of the Supplemental Process is unnecessary, because the state also uses change-of-address data provided by the Postal Service to remove voters who move.
Naifeh said an analysis of the zip codes of the voters who were removed in Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, showed that they came disproportionately from black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office has said the Supplemental Process is legal and helps to keep the state’s voter rolls accurate and up-to-date. Husted is named as the defendant in the suit.
Via MSNBC
Minorities and other voters who typically don’t support Republicans find Trump’s policy positions refreshing. He’s willing to speak the truth and expose what the political establishment has done to keep many of them in poverty.
But this loss to Kasich has put Trump on a path to a possible contested RNC convention in Cleveland, and it’s clear the establishment will stop at nothing to keep Trump away from the nomination.
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/bombshell-gop-establishment-caught-changing-voter-rolls-wanted-get-rid/
The purge of voters mostly affected blacks and other minority voters… in the Cleveland-area of Cuyahoga County alone, more than 40,000 voters were disqualified!
Ohio Governor John Kasich won his first Republican Presidential primary in a winner-take-all election. It’s clear local officials were willing to ensure his victory:
Ohio currently cancels the registration of people who don’t vote in three successive federal elections, or any of the intervening local elections — a procedure known as the Supplemental Process. Last year, around 40,000 people were removed from the rolls of Ohio’s largest county, Cuyahoga, a Democratic stronghold. Stuart Naifeh, a lawyer with Demos, said that suggests “tens or hundreds of thousands” of people were removed statewide last year alone.
“We have spoken to purged voters from around the state of Ohio who tried to vote in the November 2015 local election and were turned away,” said Freda Levenson, legal director for the ACLU of Ohio, in a statement. “The already widespread disenfranchisement that has resulted from this process is likely to be much worse in a presidential election year.”
The lawsuit, filed by the ACLU of Ohio and Demos, a voting rights organization, on behalf of two Ohio-based community groups, claims that the practice violates the National Voter Registration Act, known as Motor Voter. Motor Voter bars states from using a process that leads to people being removed solely for failing to vote, without any other reason to believe a person has moved. The suit also says Ohio’s use of the Supplemental Process is unnecessary, because the state also uses change-of-address data provided by the Postal Service to remove voters who move.
Naifeh said an analysis of the zip codes of the voters who were removed in Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, showed that they came disproportionately from black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office has said the Supplemental Process is legal and helps to keep the state’s voter rolls accurate and up-to-date. Husted is named as the defendant in the suit.
Via MSNBC
Minorities and other voters who typically don’t support Republicans find Trump’s policy positions refreshing. He’s willing to speak the truth and expose what the political establishment has done to keep many of them in poverty.
But this loss to Kasich has put Trump on a path to a possible contested RNC convention in Cleveland, and it’s clear the establishment will stop at nothing to keep Trump away from the nomination.
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/bombshell-gop-establishment-caught-changing-voter-rolls-wanted-get-rid/