Democrat-backed Ohio ballot initiatives stink of corruption

Which is really unsurprising considering they're being funded by George Soros.

Battling the Ohio Ballot Initiatives

One ballot initiative, Issue 2, is intended to establish “no excuse” absentee voting and lacks needed fraud protection. Another, Issue 3, is intended to cap campaign contributions by individuals and political parties while allowing special interest groups to contribute much larger amounts. If you would like government dominated by special interests this is your ballot initiative. Issue 4 would require electoral districts to be drawn based upon mathematical formulae. Issue 5 would be most troubling because it is intended to transfer power to administer elections from the Ohio Secretary of State, as chief election officer, to a nine-member election board of political appointees.

Here's a hilarious piece on the initiatives:

Issue 2 is one of four (2-5) peddled by Reform Ohio Now, a confederation of unions, Democrats and do-gooders at Common Cause, with help from billionaire George Soros, the checkbook behind MoveOn.org and other purple Kool-Aid fanatics.

It gives absentee voters a "do-over" provisional ballot, so they can vote twice. Democrats assure us they will straighten it out later - the way they "straightened out" those dimpled chads in Florida.

Issue 3 is a union monopoly on politics, disguised as "campaign finance reform." It pinches the money hose down to a trickle - as if it won't spring a leak somewhere else. And while it chokes donations from corporations and the rest of us, it gives unions a free pass, without disclosure of donors.

Issue 4 would take redistricting away from elected officials and give it to five appointed board members who are accountable to nobody, with unlimited spending power and no review by the courts. We don't need district surgery by a bunch of unelected political hacks with box-cutters.

Issue 5 is pure payback - sour grapes from sore losers. The Tinfoil Hat wing of the Democratic Party still thinks they wuz robbed and Kerry won. According to their "stuck on stupid" theory, it was all the fault of Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Issue 5 would take control of Ohio elections away from the secretary of state and give it to an appointed board to be named later - no accountability, no local control, no spending limits.

Here's late-breaking news: It was a fair election and Kerry lost. So should all of these issues that rig the rules for a union-Democrat takeover of Ohio (Issues 2-5) or spend Ohio into deeper Republican debt (Taft Issue 1).

I intend to vote against all of them. Twice if they let me.

Despite the jokes, the author really does hit the nail on the head. These initiatives are designed to help the Democrats steal elections (like they allege - but never prove - Republicans do). Let's hope and pray the citizens of Ohio have been well-informed on these issues or at the very least are able to see through the far left's bull.