Expand ‘Early Voting’ in W.Va.
By the News-Register"Early voting" has been a boon for many West Virginians. We see no reason why it should not be made more convenient for voters who do not live near county seats.
Last fall, more than one-fifth of the votes cast in the November general election came during the early voting period for a few weeks before Nov. 4. A total of 173,463 people made use of the process - and we have heard of very few complaints about it. It was handled efficiently by election officials at both the county and state levels.
State officials who agreed to try early voting were right to set limits on it. One important restriction is that early voting is offered at just one site in each county - the courthouse. That has made converting to the new system easier on election workers. It also has offered a measure of security that might have been missing had multiple early voting stations been set up in each county.
But the trial period is over. It has been a virtually unqualified success. It is time to move on.
Bills in both the state Senate and the House of Delegates would allow a limited expansion of early voting. They would permit county commissions to establish sites for it outside of county seats.
That is an excellent idea - providing that not one iota of protection against vote fraud is eliminated by the expansion. We encourage legislators to examine the bills carefully, in consultation with Secretary of State Natalie Tennant and county-level election officials. If they need to be amended to provide adequate election security, changes should be made.
It ought to be obvious that many voters would benefit from allowing more than one early voting station in each county. Anyone who ever has driven to the Wetzel County courthouse in New Martinsville from Hundred, or to the Marshall County courthouse in Moundsville from Cameron, should be able to understand that.
A limited number of new early voting locations in some counties would be beneficial - again, as long as security safeguards are adequate. Lawmakers should approve the expansion on that basis.
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03-13-09 3:02 PM
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RockE - Well, that's an explanation covering a convoluted set of circumstances and laws of which I was unaware. It may well all be true and factual. I don't know - and, as I think I've said previously, none of these questions will likely ever be answered to the satisfaction of many, but also none of it will make any difference to his holding office. If he becomes an "albatross" for his own party, they might drag some of this up to distance themselves from him, but aside from that, nothing will come of it.
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RockEReputation
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03-13-09 12:05 PM
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Known by Soetoro when his stepfather adopted him and the family moved to Indonesian where Obama attended a Catholic and a non-religious MUSLIM (because the majority of people were Muslims there and then)school. Indonesian law stated that if Lolo Soetoro (not a Muslim) adopted Obama at age five or younger, then Obama would automatically become an Indonesian citizen by way of adoption process. Indonesian law did NOT recognize dual citizenship so Obama became Indonesian and under Indoseian law his U.S. citizenship was no longer recognized there. But U.S. law legally still recognized Obama as an American citizen. While this remains a very active topic internet-wise the mainstream medias are over it. Excuse me now while I investigate a site where they see Jesus's hands daily in clouds above the Joshua trees in Arizona.
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Graysongs
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03-13-09 10:06 AM
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RockE - Was he or was he not known by the name Barry Sotero at some point(s) in his life? Was he not enrolled in certain schools under that name? I've heard stories to that effect and you seem to know a great deal so I feel sure you can straighten that out.
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RockEReputation
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03-13-09 9:48 AM
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In summation, despite citing the flaws in voting techniques (Obama-yes...whoops! McCain?) in an editorial in 10/08, the editorial board now signals a big thumbs up providing that, citing their CURRENT concern, not ONE "iota of protection against vote fraud is eliminated".
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RockEReputation
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03-13-09 6:27 AM
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elliswyatt - while voicing disapprovals is a wonderful "freedom of speech" feature it is nonetheless only as relevant and logical as the mouth or the keyboard of the persona proffering or spweing it, even in tiny TimBuk-Wheeling. Now although the Internet has given a platform to anyone to find and say anything and a way to find others who want to hear it reality unfortunately prevails. There is not one shred of evidence to disprove conclusions that the man's name is Barack Hussein Obama or to support allegations that the birth certificate he released isn't authentic. And that's true no matter how many people cling to some hint of doubt and use the Internet to fuel their innate sense of distrust.
"Online, they can be almost anything," he said. "They can be the crusading investigators that they always wanted to be."
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EllisWyatt
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03-12-09 10:28 PM
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The Sultan was born in Kenya to a British subject and an American mother who was residing in Kenya at the time. UNDER THE LAW IN EFFECT AT THAT TIME, the Sultan is a dual citizen, making him ineligible for the Presidency. If he was born in the US, why don't any of the hospitals in Hawaii have an original record of his birth? He has a certificate of registration-a far cry from a legitimate birth certificate. We had to listen to 8 years of "Bush stole the election!" You will now listen to 4 years of "Obama is not legally qualified to be President!"
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RockEReputation
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03-12-09 9:33 PM
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au contrare, ellis...Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States for the simple reason that he was born on American soil in Hawaii, two years after it acquired statehood. The age and citizenship status of Obama's parents at the time have no bearing on Obama's own citizenship. Any confusion on this point is the result of misunderstanding the legal concepts of jus sanguinis and jus soli on your part or on part of your source of dribble.
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Graysongs
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03-12-09 7:20 PM
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Ellis - All that you say is true and factual, but none of it has any "merit" with those who worship at Obama's Altar of Socialism. Maybe we'll meet at the "re-education camps".
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EllisWyatt
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03-12-09 7:11 PM
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John McCain was born to two US parents on a US posession, as the Canal Zone was at the time. We were leasing it from Panama. His father was in the military. He is a US citizen. Aside from that, John McCain shed blood for his country. He is American by birth and by sacrifice. How many liberal criminals in the Sultan's circle have shed blood for this country?
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EllisWyatt
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03-12-09 7:08 PM
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Actually, the law states that one's citizenship status is determined by what the law was at the time the person was born. The Sultan's mother ran off to Africa to marry a Kenya resident under British jurisdiction. He was later adopted by another non-American. The law at the time stated that, if you were born abroad to one non-US citizen, you were a dual citizen. Dual citizens cannot be President. The Sultan returned to the country at a later date and never registered with the authorities upon his entry into the US. Not only is he not a US citizen but he is also an illegal immigrant, like his aunt in New York. If the Sultan WAS a US citizen, why is he spending so much money to hide his paperwork? Why not come clean? The lawsuits were not thrown out on merit; rather, the courts have ruled that individual citizens cannot prove they were harmed by Obama serving as President if he is not a citizen. Therefore, they have no legal standing. That does not make him a citizen.
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Graysongs
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03-12-09 4:51 PM
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RockE - It doesn't really matter either way as fas as I'm concerned, but your post would indicate that this "African" entry more or less says that there was no "race" entered on the birth certificate??? I don't know since I haven't even seen the various purported copies or whatever that have been circulated around cyberspace.
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RockEReputation
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03-12-09 4:10 PM
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yea wonder...haha...its the hijackers clutching at straws so as to keep the US from being turned right(pun)-side up again that keep losing focus or else didn't possess focus when they excitedly clicked "internet connection wizard"
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wonderwhy
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03-12-09 3:43 PM
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Heck, they are debating Obama's birth cert on the mother charged with the 'wimp' assault. these posts are being hijacked by a few folks that don't know how to stay on topic. while i admit, i get baited and try to defend myself too, i will try to stay on topic and ignore these folks.
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wonderwhy
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03-12-09 3:30 PM
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are there a couple of posters on here that continue to bait people off the topic of the article, or is just my wild imagination again?
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RockEReputation
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03-12-09 3:05 PM
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On Obama's “Certification of Live Birth” Obama’s father’s race is shown as African. African isn’t a race!!!! FactCheck: Department of Health officials by tradition have left it up to the PARENTS of a newborn child to “identify” their respective races.
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Graysongs
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03-12-09 2:40 PM
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In general, I don't support "early voting". I use it because it's there and a convenience for me. Keeps me out of the cross-hairs of the political activists who show up on Election Day. Absentee ballots should be provided "for cause" - disability, military service or any legitimate reason why a voter can't get to the polling place on Election Day. Too many who vote don't know the first thing about what they're voting for and we'd be better off without them. As to Obama's birth certificate, that's an issue which is unlikely to go away for many people. I've even had people suggest that he doesn't want it out there because he's listed as "Caucasian" and that would have kind of undermined his election campaign. Who knows?
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Destroyallmonsters
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03-12-09 2:04 PM
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Obama is a citizen. Get the **** over it. His*******mother is a US citizen. He could have been born in ******* Iceland and still be a ******* citizen.
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wonderwhy
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03-12-09 11:37 AM
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popeye- this has gone to the us supreme court, last week they said they weren't going to waste anymore time on it. geeeeeeezzzzzzz
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RockEReputation
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03-12-09 11:12 AM
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Obama's residency concern was a non-issue to begin with, now it has gone through the appropriate process and has been beaten down by conservative court justices. Even still: The 1790 Congress, many of whose members had been members of the Constitutional Convention, provided in the Naturalization Act of 1790 that "And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens. John McCain is not a native-born American. His father was stationed in the Panama Canal when McCain was born.
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popeye
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03-12-09 10:50 AM
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Why post the certificate? Let's see it in court. Obama is spending some $$ in legal fees to avoid this subject. Just sayin...
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RockEReputation
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03-12-09 9:37 AM
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elliswyatt...did not bush make you aware of "the google"?...or do you merely possess/not possess some clandestine out-of-world rationale? FactCheck**** staffers have seen and touched and examined and photographed the original birth certificate of Obama and concluded that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims(from the likes of elliswyattt from the Nth rock from the Sun) that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document.
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JMorgan
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03-12-09 6:29 AM
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Hey Ellis, Sen. Byrd has come through for you. OVMC Center To Get $5.7M, By JOSELYN KING, POSTED: March 12, 2009 "I am pleased to secure funding for the Children and Adolescent Psychiatric Facility to be built in Wheeling," Byrd said in a news release. "Providing effective psychiatric care for children is very important ..."
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NancySI
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03-11-09 11:23 PM
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"In an argument popular on the Internet and taken seriously practically nowhere else, Obama's critics argue he is ineligible to be president because he is not a "natural-born citizen" as the Constitution requires." The Obama Birth-Cert. crowd really needs to get off the internets. How many court challenges will they have to lose before they finally pack it in?
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EllisWyatt
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03-11-09 10:24 PM
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Bobby Jindal is not financed by foreign Muslim groups so that makes him an immediate improvement over the Caliph of DC, Sultan Barack Hussein Obama. Isn't Barack Hussein Obama his name? Isn't Hussein his middle name? Or should we just call him BO, as in Body Odor? Until I see an original, unaltered birth certificate and until I see documents relating to the Sultan's first two colleges (he attended 3), and his trip around the world and who financed all this, he is not my President. My President would be a US citizen. If the Sultan had nothing to hide, why wouldn't he just come clean and produce an ORIGINAL, UNALTERED birth certificate and not just an altered birth registration certificate?
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EllisWyatt
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03-11-09 10:20 PM
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"He attended public school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. Following high school, Jindal attended Brown University, graduating with honors in biology and public policy. Although he had thought of a career in medicine or law, he went on to study at New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received an M.Litt. degree in political science from the University of Oxford in 1994. Later that year he was reported to have been accepted at Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, and to have the option of returning to Oxford for a D.Phil. in politics. However, after Oxford, he joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he advised Fortune 500 companies." Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, LA to two parents who were attending college there so that makes him a US citizen, unlike, say, a certain someone whose own grandmother says was born in Kenya. Bobby Jindal is a practicing Catholic who earned his way, unlike our Muslim Sultan, the poster boy for affirmative actio
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