The latest big lie from Mitt Romney is a false claim that Obama is suing to prevent members of the military from voting early in Ohio. USA Today reported what the suit is really about:
Rob Diamond, director of veterans and military family voting for the Obama campaign, said Romney is fabricating his claim: “The Obama campaign filed a lawsuit to make sure every Ohioan, including military members and their families, has early voting rights over the last weekend prior to the election.”
Obama political adviser David Axelrod, appearing on Fox News Sunday, said Romney’s claims are “false and misleading,” and that the lawsuit is about “whether the rest of Ohio should have the same right” to early voting as members of the military.
“I think it’s shameful that Governor Romney would hide behind our servicemen and women to try and win a lawsuit to deprive other Ohioans of the right to vote,” Axelrod said.
It was believed after the 2004 election that an insufficient number of voting machines led to long lines in Democratic areas, suppressing the vote, and that if not for this problem Kerry might have beat Bush. It is therefore obviously in the interest of the Obama campaign to do everything possible to facilitate voting in Ohio.
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There is little point in only bashing Obama or Romney, when they both equally deserve the disapproval of the public. I only hope that someday the general population may finally accept that relying on the government to defend our rights is misplaced trust, as the government is the primary source of infringement upon those rights.
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