Ohio’s Marijuana Votes Flipping

The office of the Secretary of State showed votes flipping in the hundreds of thousands from ‘yes’ to ‘no’ on live election returns last Tuesday night on the legalization of marijuana in Ohio as shown by televised screen shots.

This is hardly a surprising result as Ohio’s Republicans has long been seen to manipulate their vote counts to get the result they want as in the 2004 re-election bid of George W. Bush for a second term. However, questions regarding the official result of pot’s defeat at the polls need to be answered.

Had Ohio voted ‘yes’ to marijuana legalization, 10 licensed growers would have started their business which sees sites each measuring 300,000 square feet that will be regulated indoors. Yet, the pro-marijuana activist community could not agree on the passing of this measure.

Secretary of State Jon Husted could be seen as another factor in the pot election as he was vehemently against it, to the point of threatening legal action towards those who are for it. This made Husted stand out as a biased election administrator instead of taking a neutral stance. The threat worked when thousands of ‘yes’ votes became ‘no’ in a matter of minutes.

Doubts about the legalization of marijuana defeat at the polls include:

1. There was a 53 percent support for Issue 3, known as the legalization of marijuana vote during pre-election that were voiced to the Free Press where the numbers remained consistent in its internal tracking polls.

2. The tracking poll numbers’ sudden shift from 35% against to 65% against during the official vote is a very surprising 15% diversion.

3. The ‘glitches’ that were reported by media on the early hours of Election Day seems to be a common occurrence in Ohio which gives an opportunity for the operatives of the state to rig the vote count.