Who isn't allowed to distribute the paper hard copy 2008 Ohio Voter Information Guide
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Categories: Budget Priorities, Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Honest and Ethical Government, Election Reform, Civil Rights and Equality, Immigration, Media Accountability, Social Justice, Public Infrastructure / Transportation, Religion, Technology and Web 2.0, African-American Issues, Criminal Justice Reform, Faith and Religion, GLBT Issues, Women's Issues, News, Opinion, Front Page
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/voter/AdvocacyInfo.aspx
Step 1 - Click on Voter Registration Instruction Manual for Designated Agencies: High Resolution (pdf)
OR:
Click on Voter Registration Instruction Manual for Designated Agencies: Low Resolution (pdf)
Step 2 - Access Sec1:29 (34 of 46)
Step 3 - Read (D) "A board of elections shall not be required to distribute a copy of a brochure under division (B) of this section to any of the following officials or employees are requesting more than two voter registration forms at one time in the course of the official's or emplloyee's normal duties:
(1) An election official;
(2) A county treasurer
(3) A deputy registrar of motor vehicles;
(4) An employee of a designated agency;
(5) An employee of a public high school;
(6) An employee of a public vocational school;
(7) An employee of a public library
(8) An employee of the office of a county treasurer;
(9) An employee of the bureau of motor vehicles;
(10) An employee of a deputy registrar of motor vehicles;
(11) An employee of an election official.
I need to say at this point I am definitely NOT open to conversation addressing the relative merits of this law and rationalizations of why this law is okay. It is not okay. The following is "off the table for me":
1. If people really want the info, they'll get it.
2. Anybody can just print it off from the web.
3. Nobody reads these things.
4. Our taxes shouldn't be used to pay for this.
5. Single mothers/fathers and married mothers/fathers on welfare know everything there is to know about benefits. They can just as easily get this information if they cared.
I've been hearing the above opinions frequently in many different contexts. The above 5 statements have been made by normal middle class individuals who lead genuinely self - sacrificing lives to help others.
Obviously, I'm not an attorney. I wish for a magical filing of an emergency temporary (effective AT THE VERY LEAST until all formal results of the November 2008 Presidential Election are made public) injunction in a Federal District Court to shut this withholding of the paper copy of the 2008 Ohio Voter Information Guide DOWN.
Step 1 - Click on Voter Registration Instruction Manual for Designated Agencies: High Resolution (pdf)
OR:
Click on Voter Registration Instruction Manual for Designated Agencies: Low Resolution (pdf)
Step 2 - Access Sec1:29 (34 of 46)
Step 3 - Read (D) "A board of elections shall not be required to distribute a copy of a brochure under division (B) of this section to any of the following officials or employees are requesting more than two voter registration forms at one time in the course of the official's or emplloyee's normal duties:
(1) An election official;
(2) A county treasurer
(3) A deputy registrar of motor vehicles;
(4) An employee of a designated agency;
(5) An employee of a public high school;
(6) An employee of a public vocational school;
(7) An employee of a public library
(8) An employee of the office of a county treasurer;
(9) An employee of the bureau of motor vehicles;
(10) An employee of a deputy registrar of motor vehicles;
(11) An employee of an election official.
I need to say at this point I am definitely NOT open to conversation addressing the relative merits of this law and rationalizations of why this law is okay. It is not okay. The following is "off the table for me":
1. If people really want the info, they'll get it.
2. Anybody can just print it off from the web.
3. Nobody reads these things.
4. Our taxes shouldn't be used to pay for this.
5. Single mothers/fathers and married mothers/fathers on welfare know everything there is to know about benefits. They can just as easily get this information if they cared.
I've been hearing the above opinions frequently in many different contexts. The above 5 statements have been made by normal middle class individuals who lead genuinely self - sacrificing lives to help others.
Obviously, I'm not an attorney. I wish for a magical filing of an emergency temporary (effective AT THE VERY LEAST until all formal results of the November 2008 Presidential Election are made public) injunction in a Federal District Court to shut this withholding of the paper copy of the 2008 Ohio Voter Information Guide DOWN.
