In an 11th hour decision, a superior court in Ohio has allowed party challengers to go to the polls this morning to challenge the identity of voters in that state.
The lawyer who represents the African American voters that filed the lawsuit have fired an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. It is uncertain if the high court will intervene.
As many as 23,000 voters will be challenged and stopped today as that is the number of voters that the Republicans suspect of being frauds.
The political parties should keep their noses out of the balloting areas.
Major questions:
How do the challengers know which people to challenge? Are they working off of a list of suspected names? Are they picking people at random to challenge? Are they challenging everyone? What questions are they asking? What makes them more qualified to determine who is eligible to vote? Do the poll judges have the power to override the challengers? Will there be batteries of attorneys who will be standing outside the polls to offer legal representation to those voters who are turned away?
I can see violence happening in the Ohio polling places due to this. This is an unfortunate turn of events.
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