By Family Research Council
It may not be as spacious as Texas and California or as cosmopolitan as New York, but when it comes to the presidential race, Ohio is the envy of them all. A perfect blend of cities and countryside, farmers and factory workers, the Buckeye State is America’s political sweetheart.
There, in this little U.S. microcosm, voters have an uncanny knack for picking the winning presidential candidate. In the last century, only two presidents have been elected without carrying Ohio. But the Buckeye State’s importance on November 4 could also be its undoing. As ACORN pounds the pavement for new voters, the allegations of fraud are boiling.
More than 200,000 (over a third) of Ohio’s 660,000 new registrations have been flagged as mismatches. While Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D) says she is committed to making Ohio’s election an honest one, she has yet to comply with federal law. It demands that she safeguard the democratic process by verifying the thousands of registrations in question. Last week, she refused.
Sensing that the election could be compromised – – and seeing no attempt by the government to correct it – – the Ohio Republican Party sued Brunner for compliance with the law. Democrats called it a partisan attack. Their accusations carried over to Hamilton County where prosecutor Joseph Deters (R) uncovered similar problems with hundreds of absentee ballots. Even when he turned the investigation over to another prosecutor, liberals said the probe was fueled by GOP ties.
Understandably, voter confidence across the state is shaky. But unlike their party leaders, Ohioans don’t see the issue of corruption in blue and red. They see it like most Americans-as a matter of basic democracy. Republican, Independent or Democrat, we all have a stake in ensuring free and fair elections. The very foundation of our great republic rests on it. For more on how you can protect your state from corruption, log on to www.defendmyvote.com. And while you’re online, check out Ken Blackwell’s piece in today’s Washington Times, “Voter Fraud.”
The Amoral Majority
Americans who are voting for change in the form of liberal candidates are certain to get it. But is it the kind of change our families need? If the keys to Congress are placed squarely in the hands of the current leadership, imagine what our future could hold.
The Fairness Doctrine, a bad policy that was abolished in 1987, would likely be reinstated to regulate the views of U.S. broadcasters. Although it would muzzle free speech and drive talk radio into an era of opinion neutrality, this leadership has already called for it.
We can also expect the passage of a full complement of “hate crimes” laws, which would clog the legal system with lawsuits that criminalize how you and I think and what religion teaches. Third, Sen. Barack Obama is on the record stating that his first priority as president would be to pass the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), obliterating every state and local law that protects the unborn, including parental notification, conscience protections, bans on taxpayer-funded abortion, and much more. Under FOCA an individual who tries to limit abortion could be sued. This could mean anyone from state and federal legislators who work to pass abortion restrictions to pro-life protestors.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The Left has already announced its plans to roll back the Defense of Marriage Act and repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” If the last two years are any indication, this nation will be in for a total policy makeover.
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