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On Election Day 2004, long lines and widespread electoral dysfunction marred the results of the presidential election in Ohio, whose electoral votes ended up handing George W. Bush a second term. “The misallocation of voting machines led to unprecedented long lines that disenfranchised scores, if not hundreds of thousands, of predominantly minority and Democratic voters,” found a post-election report by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. According to one survey, 174,000 Ohioans, 3 percent of the electorate, left their polling place without voting because of the interminable wait. (Bush won the state by only 118,000 votes).
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In response to the 2008 election results, Ohio Republicans drastically curtailed the early voting period in 2012 from thirty-five to eleven days, with no voting on the Sunday before the election, when African-American churches historically rally their congregants to go to the polls.
Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio (D) was on MSNBC today discussing the above issue.
Republicans will do ANYTHING POSSIBLE to prevent Blacks from voting for Obama.
Whether it's purging voters in Florida, or creating unbearably long lines in Ohio, they will do everything possible to prevent a fair election from happening!
Republicans are ONCE AGAIN planning to disenfranchise Blacks from voting in Ohio.
According to one survey, 174,000 Ohioans, 3 percent of the electorate, left their polling place without voting because of the interminable wait.
so you are saying ohioites are too lazy to stand in line
The claims in Ohio in 2004 were found to be largely not legit. It seems some always have to have an excuse when they lose.
Kerry was a very weak candidate is why the Dems lost in 2004.
Walter R. Mebane Jr., a professor of government at Cornell University and member of the task force, said Ohio suffered from a "gross administrative failure" on Election Day. But he later said there was no "support whatsoever for the claim that there was a large-scale misallocation of vote from [Democratic nominee John F.] Kerry to [President] Bush in Ohio" and said it is highly unlikely Kerry would have won the state in any case.
That conclusion runs counter to charges that circulated widely after the election maintaining that Bush had defeated Kerry in Ohio because of manipulation of the voting. Those assertions, fueled in part by exit polls that had showed Kerry winning Ohio, became a major issue among many Democratic activists and resulted in a challenge to the certification of Bush's victory when Congress convened in January.
So are you claiming the incredibly long voting lines in Black districts never happened?
For the most part, yes. All the major papers investigated this after the elections and came to the same conclusions. Small abnormalities like in nearly all elections.
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It was well documented that thousands of Blacks left the polls without voting because the wait was unbearable.
I swam the English Channel with a piano strapped to my leg.
So are you claiming the incredibly long voting lines in Black districts never happened?
It was well documented that thousands of Blacks left the polls without voting because the wait was unbearable.
the wai for the right to vote was unbearable.....there you have it folks...liberals and their lazy lot want everything handed to them
you want to vote..then EXERSIZE that right..dont complain about it.................dont see them complaining about the long lines at the welfare office.....hmmmm
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