In a last-minute directive issued Friday night that could disenfranchise thousands of Ohioans and tip the outcome of the election, Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted changed requirements for submitting provisional ballots on Election Day. The directive requires voters, not election officials, to fill out a confusing form listing the type of ID they provided to vote. This new directive is a clear violation of Ohio law and puts even more votes at risk of not being counted. Secretary Husted has also instructed election officials to not count ballots where that part of the form has not been correctly filled out by the voter.

I have watched during the past 40 years as the Republicans have used their influence to tilt the playing field toward the upper 1% and it has worked. It is time to realize that it is immoral to vote Republican when the future of our planet is riding on this next election. It is immoral to put more power into the hands of the very wealthy and it is immoral to expect the 99% to pay for the mistakes and risk taking of the 1%.

Emergency Service workers on the East Coast have been working non-stop to help families get their lives back in order after the devistation of Hurricane Sandy. Mayor Bloomberg would like the NYC Marathon to go on as scheduled, but that would divert resources from the NYPD and FDNY that are needed in hurricane clean-up efforts.

So many people in the tri-state area have been impacted by the devastation of hurricane Sandy. Let's use our resources to help those in need, instead of having a marathon.

I am trying to reverse a wrong that has classified chickens as farm animals. Yes, they provide a superior protein, eggs, but they are no different than any other bird kept as pets in our city now(although, they may be quieter). We do have to think about our one grocery store for 12,250 residents while we sit in a potential natural disaster area. Food security needs to be restored as a natural human right.

TEXTING OR USING PHONE WHILE DRIVING IS PROHIBITED PULL OVER AND SAVE LIVES OR PAY A HUGE FINE

Limbaugh has long used the airwaves to broadcast incendiary hatred. Now he's putting the lives of Americans in peril on the line. He must be stopped.

Mitt Romney is a pathological liar. Help me send him a message that Toledo will not tolerate his outrageous lies and we will not perpetrate his lies by broadcasting them on our radio stations. Toledo citizens are calling on Toledo's WRQN, WXKR, WKKO, WWWM, WRVF, WVKS, WIOT and WSPD radio stations to take down Romney's false ads and stop pushing the Romeny agenda of lies.

November 16th St. Petersburg Community Preservation Commission (CPC) will vote whether or not to allow demolition of the Historic YMCA building. The CPC is comprised of nine persons appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council. The Mediterranean Revival building, located at 116 5th Street S St. Petersburg, FL, was constructed in 1926 and in October of 1991 it was listed in the St Petersburg Register of Historic Places. A Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) to demo the building is filed and will be heard by the CPC. If the CPC decision is appealed it then goes before City Council. Historic buildings in St Pete, such as the downtown YMCA, serve as a public and physical reminder of our city's deep and rich culture. These buildings are nostalgic and a point of pride among many city residents, and should be preserved, not torn down in the name of "progress" and "development." Please join Awake Pinellas in telling City Council and the CPC that we do not want this important monument to our city's history torn down.

In Youngstown, Ohio, the St. Vincent DePaul Society runs a soup kitchen that serves hungry children and families in the community. Mitt Romney recently sent his VP nominee, Paul Ryan, to the soup kitchen for a 15-minute “service” photo op of him washing pans without obtaining proper permission. The publicity stunt was designed to send a political message -- and it did. Angered by the soup kitchen’s use in a political campaign, many of its donors have withdrawn their financial support. Moreover, the soup kitchen’s volunteers are now getting harassed by Romney-Ryan supporters. New donors have stepped up to offset some of the losses (info on making a donation is below), but it should be Mitt Romney who takes responsibility. It’s time for him to pay up and show the soup kitchen the money – not his apology. He needs to make the soup kitchen financially whole, so its volunteers can continue to serve the families of Ohio. To make a donation, visit http://mahoningsvdp.org/ or send a check to directly benefit the Mahoning County Society of Saint Vincent De Paul to the following address: St. Vincent de Paul Society Mahoning County P.O. Box 224 Youngstown, Ohio 44501 To send a copy of the petition language directly to the Romney campaign, you can email [email protected] and [email protected].

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy US Representative Reid Ribble plans to vote to cut funding for FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Act, which provides disaster relief in many forms after events such as hurricanes and flooding.

Make Matt Larkins the the official of the unincorporated town of Durham California.