When the Lake County early voting fiasco first developed, the GOP lawyers and representatives took the tact that they weren't upset about early voting being extended to county offices in the northern, poorer portions of the county -- they just wanted to make sure that everyone got that opportunity. To wit:Republican attorney David Brooks of Indianapolis law firm Brooks Koch & Sorg argued allowing Lake County to open satellite offices would be unfair.
"The implication here is that citizens in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago -- heavily Democratic areas -- have some right citizens in Hamilton County, for instance -- a heavily Republican area -- do not," Brooks said. Now, after two weeks of legal maneuvering, the case is in a Superior Court. The judge asked a simple, reasonable question yesterday: What if we allowed these vote sites to stay open, and allow you to open additional ones in more suburban areas?She explored with LaSota whether to open even more early in-person voting centers in suburban communities in response to Republican complaints Democrats have opened voting in the county's three largest Democratic strongholds.
However, R. Lawrence Steele, a GOP lawyer, told the judge they don't want more early voting centers open, they want Gary, Hammond and East Chicago's centers closed.
Kavadias-Schneider asked, "What of those who have already voted?" Steele said, "Maybe those votes should be discarded." Compassionate conservatism? Change versus more of the same? Or perhaps we really should look into this pro-America, anti-America line of thinking.
These guys care about nothing more than making it extremely difficult for people to vote -- especially if you don't work regular hours, don't happen to have a car, or perhaps just don't happen to have three hours to kill on a Tuesday, standing in cold lines in November. And on top of it all, they apparently are fine with tossing a few thousand votes just days before the election.
Absolutely, inexcusably despicable. |
