{"id":31109,"date":"2012-11-01T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/yeah-ohios-going-to-be-a-mess-this-election-year-again.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:48:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:48:54","slug":"yeah-ohios-going-to-be-a-mess-this-election-year-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/yeah-ohios-going-to-be-a-mess-this-election-year-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, Ohio&#39;s going to be a mess this election year. Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swell.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/husted.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/11\/01\/1122641\/ohios-ballot-woes-could-delay-election-results-for-weeks\/'>Ohio\u2019s Ballot Woes Could Delay Election Results For Weeks<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPollsters and pundits have trained their eyes on Ohio, where President Obama maintains a narrow lead over Mitt Romney just days before the election. According to exit polls, Obama\u2019s lead is even stron&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/TTfV6e85hXf' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swell. Embedded Link Ohio\u2019s Ballot Woes Could Delay Election Results For Weeks Pollsters and pundits have trained their eyes on Ohio, where President Obama maintains a narrow lead over Mitt Romney just days before the election. According to exit polls, Obama\u2019s lead is even stron&#8230; Google+: View post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31136,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/election-shenanigans-in-ohio.html","url_meta":{"origin":31109,"position":0},"title":"Election shenanigans in Ohio","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Nov-12 11:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd like to think I would object to these kind of tactics regardless of the partisan politics behind them. \u00a0This particular list is nothing new, but a good summary of Husted's actions this political season (though it leaves out his earlier casting deciding votes in a GOP-leaning fashion for individual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12541,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/potpourri_on_a_friday_aft.html","url_meta":{"origin":31109,"position":1},"title":"Potpourri on a Friday afternoon","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Mar-08 2:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mysterious Case of Ohio's Voting Machines | Threat Level from Wired.com\u00a0- e-voting \"irregularities\" may be a lot easier than normal voting, but they tend to be (so far)...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31297,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/planning-for-2016.html","url_meta":{"origin":31109,"position":2},"title":"Planning for 2016","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Nov-12 8:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"I do not call this \"rigging the election* as it's not only perfectly legal but even, on the face of it, defensible. \u00a0But it is game-playing, and it is a concern for other reasons.The winner-takes-all nature of most electoral college challenges in US means that a slight advantage in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html","url_meta":{"origin":31109,"position":3},"title":"There&#39;s more than one way to suppress a voter","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-12 9:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dragged kicking and screaming by two federal court decisions (and a rejection from SCOTUS) to reinstate rull early voting for all voters, Ohio GOP Secretary of State John Husted is playing around with the hours of early voting centers to make it more difficult to find out when voting is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29871,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/a-level-if-low-playing-field-in-ohio.html","url_meta":{"origin":31109,"position":4},"title":"A level, if low, playing field in Ohio","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Aug-12 9:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ohio's popular early voting law -- a response to major crowds and difficulty getting into vote in 2004 -- was done away with earlier this year. 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