Free Press Election Watch Report #1
Bob Fitrakis reports on a filing at the Federal District Court in Columbus, Ohio - 11 am, Election Day, 2012

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Attention OSU students:
A Franklin County Precinct Judge told an Election Protection observer this morning that Ohio State University supplied their students with a letter, that supposedly along with a student ID, allows them to vote. It essentially servers as a utility bill. If you read the directive that allows utility bills, it is a bit vague. So if a student at OSU has an Indiana driver’s license but it registered in Ohio, he/she should be able to present student ID plus this document from OSU. The precinct judge in Westerville is getting the identical letter from Otterbein, but he called SOS for a ruling because OSU is state school, and Otterbein is not. He had already allowed three students to vote regular ballot with this document and student ID.

Reporting from Election Protection Command Center: So far, we have not heard of any problems opening the polls. We have heard that people are showing up to vote at the Driving Park polling site with their voter cards from the Board of Elections, but their names did NOT show up on the voting rolls. Each one was made to vote provisionally.

Call 1-855-VOTING HELP (1-855-868-4644) if you experience any problems voting today.

At 9am Election Day, a federal judge will decide whether untested and uncertified secret software will remain on Ohio’s vote tabulation and reporting systems in 39 counties. Bob Fitrakis, in his capacity as the Chair of the Ohio Green Party, filed suit at approximately 12:30pm on Monday, November 5 against Ohio Secretary of State John Husted and Elections Systems and Solutions for their clandestine installation of uncertified and untested software. Judge Frost, U.S. District Court Southern District Court of Ohio, agreed to the hearing to be held Tuesday, November 6.

The suit seeks immediate the injunctive relief of removing the untested, uncertified software from all county tabulators.

Should there be insufficient time or resources to remove said software from the tabulators, those tabulators will not be used and all ballots will be counted by hand if either the state or federal judge grants the injunction.

The Columbus Free Press is joining with Video the Vote, the Ohio Green Party and dozens of citizen activists around Ohio and the nation to defend voting rights on Election Day 2012.
We have established an operations center in Columbus at the Free Press offices. We will operate from this disclosed location, deploying videographers, accredited poll monitors, lawyers and journalists wherever they are needed on Election Day.
We will record on video any attempts at voter intimidation and harassment.

We will seek injunctions on behalf of citizens wherever their rights are violated.

We monitor the vote precincts to see that no voting machines are tampered with.

We will visually monitor the vote count in selected counties.

Our team of nearly two dozen online monitors will be watching the count for statistical anomalies and catch and record them as they happen.

We will communicate the facts on the ground to the public via stories on our website, video and twitter (follow us @freepressorg).

We will provide in-depth coverage before during and after the election.