2004 DEAD IN OHIO PT. 2

Not '04-centric, exactly, but part of the same story arc: A federal judge ordered a halt to enforcement of new voter registration laws issued by the Secretary of State’s office, saying they appeared to violate the 1st amendment. A more detailed judgment is due later this week, and is rumored to include the section heading that reads: Yes It’s True – Kennneth Blackwell Has No Dick.

The new old rules required that all registration paperwork be personally delivered or mailed to the registration offices by the individual who gathered them, meaning that completed forms could not be handed over to organizations for processing, but had to be sent – quickly – to the state. The regs also required anyone being paid to register voters to take an online training class.

Registration forms were printed with warnings of strict criminal penalties for violating the new regulations. I have not seen them but assume they involve pictures of aborted fetuses. Register-ers have been told by the court to ignore them.

On further speculation, I figure Blackwell’s new campaign posters will say: “Ken Blackwell, Republican for Governor: Sometimes you feel like big government, sometimes you don’t.”