By Tom Blumer | For Ohio Watchdog
Two Buckeye State politicians have a funny but dangerous understanding of the term “voter suppression.”
Sen. Nina Turner, D-Cleveland, and Rep. Kathleen Clyde, D-Kent, issued a 15-page report claiming that nearly 50,000 Ohioans had their votes suppressed in the 2012 general election.
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Of these, 34,299 allegedly suppressed votes, or more than 70 percent of the total, consisted of disqualified provisional ballots. In more than 20,000 of those instances, the people involved weren’t even registered to vote.
There’s no conceivable justification outside of a desire to rig elections, something I’m sure the pair would claim is the furthest thing from their minds, for counting the votes of anyone who isn’t properly registered.