I wasn't totally clear. Clint Curtis testimony WAS to a congressional judiciary committee,
but the hearing took place IN Ohio. I didn't think that looked like Congress!
A fmaily member says this story is huge IF it holds.
A friend wonders why this story hasn't been picked up by larger media today. Was the man's
story discredited?
For today's story you can click on the above title of this post. Does it shed any light on why that story hasn't been picked up? Here's an excerpt:
"House Bill 3 has already passed the Ohio House of Representatives and is about to be approved by the Republican-dominated Senate, probably before the holiday recess. Republicans dominate the Ohio legislature thanks to a heavily gerrymandered crazy quilt of rigged districts, and to a moribund Ohio Democratic party. The GOP-drafted HB3 is designed to all but obliterate any possible future Democratic revival. Opposition from the Ohio Democratic Party, where it exists at all, is diffuse and ineffectual.
HB3's most publicized provision will require positive identification before casting a vote. But it also opens voter registration activists to partisan prosecution, exempts electronic voting machines from public scrutiny, quintuples the cost of citizen-requested statewide recounts and makes it illegal to challenge a presidential vote count or, indeed, any federal election result in Ohio. When added to the recently passed HB1, which allows campaign financing to be dominated by the wealthy and by corporations, and along with a Rovian wish list of GOP attacks on the ballot box, democracy in Ohio could be all but over."
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