Comments on: Court Backs Dem In Ohio Voting Dispute

Supreme Court Sides With Election Official In Dispute With State Republican Party Over Voter Registrations

[john43218]

Again, I am amused by the commments.. What a bunch morons here.

[strangeworld]

I think that there''s too much being read into this decision, or failure to make a decision, by the Supreme Court. It sounds to me that they would not consider the challenge to the state of Ohio by a third party (private) party, in this case the Ohio GOP. It''s a mess, but it looks like the state is moving to get the voter registrations cross-referenced with other data-bases, so you can''t really make a case for footdragging. After the debacle in 2000...and again in Ohio itself in 2004, there should have been more emphasis on providing a system that ensured that all voters would be able to easily register and vote without problem...that would be the least that our government could do for it''s citizens. No priority was given to voting problems by the bush administration, so we''ve got another problem - maybe it will be starightened out by the next election.

[whitmore69]

John6pack. Figures you are a Republican. Your ignorance is astounding. The Supreme Court of the United States did not decide this matter. It was the OHIO State Supreme Court.

[john43218]

TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!

The BIASED DEM BS ALLOWS FRAUD..

The %u201Cnon-bias%u201D news agencies slant so stongly towards (or are paid by) Obama that they have actually brain-washed the American people. I love my country and I am disappointed with the all anti-American influences from Democrats & Liberals telling us what we want.
God help us.

[briannorwood]

"We need to revisit Thomas Jefferson''s philosophies." -- Jeffersoniantomadams99

OK. Here is what Jefferson thought about voter restrictions....


Concerned about the rise of any form of tyranny, Jefferson wanted tools in government to work as inherent checks upon itself and provide safeguards against the vandalism of the Bill of Rights. Of these tools were to have an unrestricted press, an educated public to judge it with, and the right for all to vote. Although no system is perfect, he thought it better to allow the people to err, rather than to permit a power that restricts the people. "The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep the true principles of their institution. To only punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of public liberty"

[tomadams99]

A good example of how far the DEMOCOMs will go to gain power and influence in the nation. We need to revisit Thomas Jefferson''s philosophies.

[john6pack]

Both sides had valid arguments but here is my take.
One law asked for checkups and other law forbids changing the lists in the last 90 days before the election.
Since the checkups could result in list changes, that would violate the 90 day freeze period.
If the republicans broght this lawsuit some months ago, it should have had a very different outcome.
Now, it''s too late, and both parties screwed it up.

[godseyesore-2009]

I guess this is turnabout for the Florida debacle in bush''s stolen election. Even so, (and I''m a democrat), I think Supreme Court should keep the hell out of politics. Even chief justice Rehnqist stated that the quick jump into the 2000 election process was biggest mistake of his tenure at supreme court.

[aboz3]

OneAmerican7 at 12:56 PM

Your post is giving everyone a chuckle. Would you mind sharing the dope you must be smoking???

[credibility2]

ainttaken: your post is exactly what I''m referring too and is totally off point. I do agree that personal responsiblity is also key but not to have mentioned it is hardly hypocritcal. Perhaps you should take that into consideration before you go off on irrational immature tangents. And please spare me the inference about my party affiliation and which candidate I may or may not have already voted for. Criminals come in all forms, including the Feds, especially Congress, Wall St and Main St.

[misha128-2009]

Joe the plummer, a regular American trying to live the American dream ...

Posted by OneAmerican7 at 12:56 PM

Was used in another John McCain fantasy production (lie), and promptly thrown under the bus. Be careful or you will be Senator McCain;s next victim.

[whitmore69]

Bravo, Supreme Court of Ohio, for calling out the Republican Morality Police on their obvious ploy to keep the poor and disenfranchised from casting their vote

[credibility2]

Those who feel the Repubs should "get over it" are more than likely young, immoral and without any ethics, integrity or sense of duty and responsibility for honoring and obeying laws. These are the same types who excuse criminal behavior in sports and entertainment figures thinking whatever they did that was criminal should be overlooked, since it''s not at all important.

[unlresources]

Does ACORN have anything to do with this? 200,000 votes are quite a bit since the margin of victory for Bush in 2004 was 119,000. Wheter you''re a Dem or Rep or Indy just goes to prove politicians will do anything for a vote.

[credibility2]

This has been made out to be a political issue. The Dems are wrong to be tolerating and thereby accepting any type of voter registration fraud because it gets at the very heart of our rights as legal citizens to exercise the right to vote. If this were the Repubs attempting to do the same thing, the Dems wouldn''t hesitate to go after them. For the Dems to turn a blind eye to this type of criminal registration and impede any form of investigation is reprehensible. And for the Dems to further accept this type of criminality speaks to what their intent really is in this matter, and that is to fix the vote for their candidate. Remember what the black Muslim extremist and radical Malcolm X used to say? He said "..by any necessary.." and the Dems are living up to this rallying cry for criminality and fraud. The Dems have become the party that perverts our rights and condones and encourages voter registration fraud, all the while worshiping at the feet of Acorn, the perpetrators of this criminality. This is what our nation has become. Tolerating this or any t ype of criminality for expediency and fraud and to actually convince themselves that it''s perfectly acceptable is very dangerous and undermines our democracy and our rights as legal citizens to vote and conform to law.

[koko98-2009]

To the Republicans complaining about this case, in the words of YOUR hero Antonin Scalia, "GET OVER IT!!"