By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 22:37:50 | Updated at 2024-09-30 19:30:38
5 days ago
Department won't provide election security after sheriff's posts about Harris yard signs (Ohio)
ABC 'News' ^ | 9/22/24 | Associated Press
Posted on 09/24/2024 3:20:31 PM PDT by Libloather
RAVENNA, Ohio -- A local Ohio elections board says the county sheriff's department will not be used for election security following a social media post by the sheriff saying people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if the Democratic vice president wins the November election.
In a statement on the Portage County Democrats' Facebook page, county board of elections chair Randi Clites said members voted 3-1 Friday to remove the sheriff's department from providing security during in-person absentee voting.
Clites cited public comments indicating “perceived intimidation by our sheriff against certain voters” and the need to “make sure every voter in Portage County feels safe casting their ballot for any candidate they choose.”
A Ravenna Record-Courier story on the Akron Beacon Journal site reported that a day earlier, about 150 people crowded into a room at the Kent United Church of Christ for a meeting sponsored by the NAACP of Portage County, many expressing fear about the Sept. 13 comments.
“I believe walking into a voting location where a sheriff deputy can be seen may discourage voters from entering,” Clites said. The board is looking at using private security already in place at the administration building or having Ravenna police provide security, Clites said.
Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski posted a screenshot of a Fox News segment criticizing President Joe Biden and Harris over immigration. Likening people in the U.S. illegally to “human locusts,” he suggested recording addresses of people with Harris yard signs so when migrants need places to live “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families ... who supported their arrival!”
Local Democrats filed complaints with the Ohio secretary of state and other agencies, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: election; ohio; security; sheriff
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1 posted on 09/24/2024 3:20:31 PM PDT by Libloather
To: Libloather
The sheriff was brilliant for posting this. Let’s let all the virtue signaling lefties practice what they preach.
2 posted on 09/24/2024 3:24:01 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Libloather
The elections staff don’t want any official LE there when they close the doors and start rescanning all the Harris ballots from under the table.......
3 posted on 09/24/2024 3:26:45 PM PDT by Gaffer
To: No name given
Immigrants living near people = threat?
4 posted on 09/24/2024 3:28:53 PM PDT by Celerity
To: Libloather
I’ll bet they didn’t even talk to the Sheriff before the vote.
5 posted on 09/24/2024 3:34:11 PM PDT by arizonarick
To: Celerity
Immigrants living near people = threat?
Illegal invaders, freeloaders on your tax dollars, brining crime gangs and rape.
But if you post your address, we can encourage them to move into YOUR neighborhood for your personal enrichment and learning curve.
6 posted on 09/24/2024 3:34:25 PM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
To: Z28.310
...and how fast the NIMBY will reveal itself!
7 posted on 09/24/2024 3:35:37 PM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
To: Libloather
“A local Ohio elections board”
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I don’t believe that call is in the election board’s authority. It’s a public safety issue. The state legislature needs to put them in their place.
8 posted on 09/24/2024 3:36:04 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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