US COMMISSION OF CIVIL RIGHTS "OH Preparedness for '06 Elections"

[mod mom]

The US Commission on Civil Rights is hosting a program on "Ohio's Preparedness for the 2006 Elections," beginning March 16, at 1:30, at the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, 1111 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH.

Thursday, March 16

Panel 1 begins at 1:30 p.m., panelists:
Daniel Tokaji, Moritz college of Law
Richard Saphire, University of Dayton Law School
Catherine Turcer, Ohio Citizen Action

Panel 2 begins at 3:00 panelists:
Samuel Gresham, Common Cause/OH
Peg Rosenfield, League of Women Voters
Sue Willis, AXIS

Open Session 4:45 to 5:15

Friday, March 17

Panel 3 begins at 9:30 a.m., panelists:
Cassandra Hick, Office of the Secretary of State
Jeff Jacobson, State Senator (not confirmed)
Eric Kearney, State Senator (not confirmed)

Panel 4 begins at !1:00 a.m., panelists:
Michael Vu, Cuyahoga County Board of Elections
Matthew Damschroder, Franklin County Board of Elections
Keith Cunningham, Allen County Board of Elections

Open Session 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

[yourout]

1. Here is my Ohio List of things to prepare for 06 elections.

#1. Purge Democratic registrations......Done
#2. Make recounts difficult if not impossible.....Done
#3. Change laws to force the use of Unreliable voting machines with no paper trail....Done

Still to do.
#1. Short Democratic districts machines so the wait is long and difficult.
#2. Make sure the failure rate of machines is ridiculusly high to make the wait even longer.
#3. Make sure all non-votes default to Republican.
#4. Make sure "calibration" errors change votes to Republican.
#5. Have police near polling places in Democratic Districts.
#6. Pass out flyers tell people in Democratic Districts that they can not vote if they have had a parking ticket or that the day they should vote is a day later.
#7. Change polling locations in Democratic Districts to confuse voters.
#8. Place goons in Democratic Districts polling places to challenge voters with similar names.

[Kurovski]

2. K&R.nt

[Wilms]

3. K&R n/t

[BillORightsMan]

4. Thur: GOOD :: Fri: BAD

Just perusing the roster, it looks like Friday's roster of speakers will be there to defend the new (and AWFUL) HB3.

I'm not too sure of the speakers on Thursday, tho. It looks like Thursday's panel has more voting rights activists, but I'm not familiar with the names, just the entities.

I hope J30, LICOPAC, OHIO Code Pink and other election reform activists will show up.
I'm thinking of going down there on Thursday.

Any thoughts on the composition of the panels?
I hope Free Press sends someone to cover this.
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