"In a victory for the Democrats, a federal judge ruled Thursday that Ohio voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Election Day can still cast ballots as long as they are in the county where they are registered," the Associated Press reported.

Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, had correctly noted that state law required poll workers to send wayward voters to the right precinct.

U.S. District Judge James Carr, nominated to the judiciary by Bill Clinton in 1994, decreed in Toledo that people may cast so-called provisional ballots in the wrong precinct. The only thing that has to be correct is the county. Let's see, how many precincts does Cuyahoga County have?

"Lessened participation at the polls diminishes the vitality of our democracy," Carr said.

He failed to note that massive fraud at the polls diminishes the vitality of our republic.

Even if the Democrat judge hadn't ruled in his party's favor, Democrat-run counties had planned to violate state law anyway.

"Nobody is going to be turned away at the polling location," Michael Vu, director of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Monday.

Really? Not even illegal aliens or non-residents or dead people? Seems Chicago-style antics are spreading.

Citizens who don't want the election to be stolen will supposedly be allowed to challenge all the bogus provisional ballots later, after the Democrats have carried out their threat to unleash their mobs of lawyers.

P.S.: In the nation's other most hotly contested state, Florida, Democrats and their thuggish, increasingly violence-prone allies in Big Labor are urging the Democrat-run state Supreme Court (yes, the same court that abetted Al Gore's failed coup attempt in 2000) to issue a similar ruling.

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