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I'm way behind you guys being successful in your Recount contest. I even made a contribution toward the filing fee, however minimal the amt. I could afford to make toward that great expense.
However, a quick read of your Free Press art., I wanted to pass onto you one comment, about one of the points raised -- b/c I think it's not a good point, and you better come up with better arguments than that if you hope to be successful in your challenge.
I'm referring to the Pastor, Werner Lange's remarks about min. no. of voting machines required. I think you should drop that one argument and move on with better ones -- not about how many machines were nec. required, but the 'wait times' standing in line, say at black precincts -- where you say peo. had to wait for incredible periods of time, like 3-6 hours!!! And, that, as a result, some voters got discouraged and left...I think that's a good example that whatever they were doing inside the polling place (not enough machines, not enough poll workers; slow processing time, whatever), that's a good indication that something was not working right in this process.
"Werner Lange, a pastor from Youngstown, Ohio, who said in part: ?In precincts 1 A and 5 G, voting as Hillman Elementary School, which is a predominantly African American community, there were woefully insufficient number of voting machines in three precincts. I was told that the standard was to have one voting machine per 100 registered voters. Precinct A had 750 registered voters. Precinct G had 690. There should have been 14 voting machines at this site. There were only 6..."
Think that's asking for too many darned voting machines. In PA, for instance, statute requires at least 1 voting machine per 600 registered voters, not 100 voters as Pastor Lange states above -- and not more than 1 machine per 350 voters.
I worked as a Democratic poll watcher in a polling place Election Day with 1,300 registered voters. The polling place had 2 machines and it was sufficient most of the day and there weren't long lines even during rush hour in the morning or evening. According to PA law, the polling place had just about the legal requirement of 2 voting machines (1,300 voters divided by 600 = about 2).
If the Pastor's understanding of Ohio law was required in PA, then the polling place I was at would have been required to have THIRTEEN (13) VOTING MACHINES -- and I don't care if your Democrat, Repub, Green or Blue, that's an absurb amount of machines.
So, either check the Pastor's info to make sure he's right on the ratio of machines to registered voters, or drop that argument from your newspaper, and focus on more solid ones, like voter intimidation, bureaucratic foot-dragging -- taking too long to register new voters, etc, turning away first-time voters with proper ID, manipulation of machine results, interfering with the right of poll watchers to observe and challenge voters on Election Day, for poll watchers to inspect voting lists, etc; asking non-firsttime voters for ID, and so on...
P.S. Is this Recount petition getting any 'play' in the national press?
However, a quick read of your Free Press art., I wanted to pass onto you one comment, about one of the points raised -- b/c I think it's not a good point, and you better come up with better arguments than that if you hope to be successful in your challenge.
I'm referring to the Pastor, Werner Lange's remarks about min. no. of voting machines required. I think you should drop that one argument and move on with better ones -- not about how many machines were nec. required, but the 'wait times' standing in line, say at black precincts -- where you say peo. had to wait for incredible periods of time, like 3-6 hours!!! And, that, as a result, some voters got discouraged and left...I think that's a good example that whatever they were doing inside the polling place (not enough machines, not enough poll workers; slow processing time, whatever), that's a good indication that something was not working right in this process.
"Werner Lange, a pastor from Youngstown, Ohio, who said in part: ?In precincts 1 A and 5 G, voting as Hillman Elementary School, which is a predominantly African American community, there were woefully insufficient number of voting machines in three precincts. I was told that the standard was to have one voting machine per 100 registered voters. Precinct A had 750 registered voters. Precinct G had 690. There should have been 14 voting machines at this site. There were only 6..."
Think that's asking for too many darned voting machines. In PA, for instance, statute requires at least 1 voting machine per 600 registered voters, not 100 voters as Pastor Lange states above -- and not more than 1 machine per 350 voters.
I worked as a Democratic poll watcher in a polling place Election Day with 1,300 registered voters. The polling place had 2 machines and it was sufficient most of the day and there weren't long lines even during rush hour in the morning or evening. According to PA law, the polling place had just about the legal requirement of 2 voting machines (1,300 voters divided by 600 = about 2).
If the Pastor's understanding of Ohio law was required in PA, then the polling place I was at would have been required to have THIRTEEN (13) VOTING MACHINES -- and I don't care if your Democrat, Repub, Green or Blue, that's an absurb amount of machines.
So, either check the Pastor's info to make sure he's right on the ratio of machines to registered voters, or drop that argument from your newspaper, and focus on more solid ones, like voter intimidation, bureaucratic foot-dragging -- taking too long to register new voters, etc, turning away first-time voters with proper ID, manipulation of machine results, interfering with the right of poll watchers to observe and challenge voters on Election Day, for poll watchers to inspect voting lists, etc; asking non-firsttime voters for ID, and so on...
P.S. Is this Recount petition getting any 'play' in the national press?