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Old 12 May 2013, 03:26 PM
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The word is spreading that Ariel Castro is a registered Democrat though the research I've seen indicates that Ohio residents can't name a party when they register to vote. Ohio folks...is that true?
No, or Ohioans wouldn't be able to vote in the primaries.
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Old 12 May 2013, 04:46 PM
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No, or Ohioans wouldn't be able to vote in the primaries.
I don't follow your logic here. Some states have general registration, and then at the primaries, the voters select the ballot of the party they want to have a say in (and usually if there is a primary run-off, they have to stick with the party they chose in the first round). But other states have registration by party, and the voters go to the primaries and are issued a ballot according to how they have registered. I am not seeing how you are saying that a party designation at registration would prevent Ohioans from voting in primaries.
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Old 12 May 2013, 05:09 PM
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the research I've seen indicates that Ohio residents can't name a party when they register to vote. Ohio folks...is that true?
The Ohio voter registration form does not include a field for the registrant to indicate a party affiliation:

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/uploa...forms/4010.pdf
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Old 12 May 2013, 06:59 PM
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"School killers are all Democrats" might be true.

But so is;
"Most school killers owned their guns legally, the few that didn't have the guns legally had easy access to unsecured legally owned guns."
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Old 12 May 2013, 07:04 PM
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In Ohio, you register as a member of a party by voting in that party's primary. Being a "registered Democrat" just means that the last time you voted in a party primary, it was the Democratic primary.
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Facts are also Democrats, and should not be trusted.
Chloe FTW!

How dare they let facts get in the way of their rants?
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Old 13 May 2013, 02:22 PM
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False flag operation. I think the shooters are registering as democrats before they go on the shooting spree.

See it's stupid both ways!!
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Some of these people were political extremists who couldn't really be called conservative or liberal.
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Old 23 May 2013, 11:26 AM
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This article debunks some of the claims, or at least shows that they have no evidence.
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