Mary Siegel, Catherine and Bryan Engelbrecht - Ohio Tea Party leading the purge.

[LynneSin]

Not sure if you saw this article on Huff Post and LA Times about how regular citizens and members of the Tea Party are essentially going thru the Ohio Voter lists and challenging over 2000 voters over whether or not they are legal voters. One of the women they challenged was a 40 year old cancer survivor who lived in the same apartment building for 7 years but the apartment building happened to be listed as 'commercial'. You can read more here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ohio-voting-fight-20120927,0,811761.story

The groups and their allies describe it as a citizen movement to prevent ballot fraud, although the Republican secretary of state said in an interview that he knew of no evidence that any more than a handful of illegal votes had been cast in Ohio in the last few presidential elections.

"We're all about election integrity — making sure everyone who votes is registered and qualified voters," said Mary Siegel, one of the leaders of the Ohio effort.

and

The tea party groups, scattered around the state, have joined forces under the banner of the Ohio Voter Integrity Project. It is an offshoot of True the Vote, a Texas organization that has recruited volunteers nationwide to challenge voter rosters and work as poll watchers.

True the Vote was founded by Catherine and Bryan Engelbrecht, a couple who run an oil field equipment manufacturing firm in Rosenberg, Texas.

In Ohio, election records show, one of the project's top priorities has been to remove college students from the voter rolls for failure to specify dorm room numbers. (As a group, college students are strongly in Obama's camp.)

These THREE are the RACISTS leading the act of purging voters in hopes to steal the election. When I read something so fricking racist that it makes my blood boil I want to make sure we know the names of the people who are doing this. I think society should scorn those people still practicing obvious racism in this country. I'm wondering if the justice department can investigate this.

Remember these are NOT elected officials. Just private citizens so desperate to get the state to vote republican that they would commit such heinous racist acts.

This isn't 1940 this is 2012. There is no room for racism these days!

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I wish there were some way to get a list of all Ohio tea baggers and challenge everyone of them.

[LynneSin]

3. THey should all be outed as racists

It's disgusting

Here's a thought - if you're so fricking worried that your guy is going to lose the election then perhaps you should have found a better candidate. We had 8 years looking foolish with Bush as president and he was a dumbass. Do we want that again? Romney looks like an asshole, a nincompoop and completely clueless as to what the duties of president would entail. I'm thinking that to him President would be like Queen of England where he shows up for ceremonies and events while Parliament and the Prime Minister does all the dirty work.

[yardwork]

2. Marlene Hess Kocher - guilty of voter intimidation

From the second page at the link, my bolds:

Marlene Hess Kocher, another leader of the Ohio project, filed 420 challenges in Hamilton County over the last month. Kocher alleged that eight members of an African American family, the Sharps, were registered to vote at a vacant lot in Lockland, just outside Cincinnati.

"You are hereby notified that your right to vote has been challenged," letters from county elections officials told each of the Sharps.

"Does this look like a vacant lot?" Teresa Sharp, 53, asked one recent afternoon as she and a friend sat on canvas chairs outside the four-bedroom house where the family has lived since the 1980s.

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Jon Husted, the Republican secretary of state, said in an interview that the Sharp case undercut the tea party effort.

"When you cry wolf, and there's no wolf," he said, "you undermine your credibility, and you have unjustly inconvenienced a legally registered voter, and that can border on voter intimidation."

[LynneSin]

4. There should be a fine involved when you incorrectly challenge a voter

These voter challenges costs tax dollars to handle. I think that for each challenge that comes up incorrect the person doing the challenging should be fined $100 for Process & Handling fees.

I respect that this is part of democracy but I also think when it's abused our tax dollars shouldn't have to pick up the tab. You have even 10 incorrect challenges and that's $1000. You don't pay the fine then you have to sit in a jail and lose your voting rights.

[CoffeeCat]

5. How many Democrats will not be able to vote on election night....

...because these tea-party half-wits will have challenged their names on the voter rolls--and when these people show up--they will be turned away and told that there is "a problem."

Then it will be too late.

It will be too late on election night, to do anything.

This is incredibly serious. We need to do something now, or Romney will steal it and win.

It absolutely could happen.