Court Ruling May Impede Thousands of Ohio Voters

[tri_blog]

Dammit. They try every trick in the book.

Ohio Secretary Of State Will Fight Republican Challenge (HuffPo):Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told the Huffington Post on Thursday that she is ready not only to fight the state's current election law battle in front of the Supreme Court, but is also willing to wage a new fight, if necessary, to

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[mollywobbles867]

So...they're not going to do anything? I'm confused. What's the final decision? Or is there not one yet?

[tri_blog]

"The court decision requires Jennifer Brunner, the Ohio secretary of state, to provide the names [of voters who don't match names on government databases] to local election officials by Friday. Once the local officials have the names, they may require these voters to cast provisional ballots rather than regular ones, and they may ask partisan poll workers to challenge these voters on Election Day. Both possibilities could cause widespread problems when the voters show up at the polls.

Concerns about those problems led the Ohio Attorney General’s Office to file an appeal of the decision to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Ms. Brunner on Wednesday night."

We'll have to see what the Supreme Court says.

But this court decision requires Secretary Brunner to give all these names to local election officials. These officials may then ask poll workers to challenge these voters on Nov. 4 and force them to vote with provisional ballots.

[mollywobbles867]

Ah. I hope the Court lets them through. This has voter suppression written all over it. I bet these "non-matching" names are off by a letter or something and are just typos on the part of officials.

[tri_blog]

Ohio Secretary Of State Will Fight Republican Challenge (HuffPo):

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told the Huffington Post on Thursday that she is ready not only to fight the state's current election law battle in front of the Supreme Court, but is also willing to wage a new fight, if necessary, to make sure hundreds of thousands of new voters are not "forced" onto provisional ballots on election day.

Spurred by revelations that the community organizing group ACORN has submitted many thousands of ineligible voter registration cards in battleground states, Ohio Republicans have been calling for a wholesale comparison of the state's nearly 666,000 new active voters against data collected by the local DMV.

Brunner charged that Republican demands are meant to create confusion at the polls and keep all the ballots from being counted.

[lexster07]

At least Paul Stevens is more on the liberal side of the spectrum. Keep your fingeras crossed.
Lexster

[changein2008]

Exactly - glad we don't have to deal with Republican Ken Blackwell this time in Ohio.

[changein2008]

Yay!! :-)

[orange_poptart]

I'm an Ohio voter... this worries me because my fiance reregistered very close to the deadline to make an address change... he had to cast a provisional ballot last year.... Would it be smarter for him to vote early?

Check with your registrar of voters

[tri_blog]

He should call your county Registrar of Voters now and check if he is properly registered. See if his name matches the state database---whatever that is. Is he an absentee voter or will he vote Nov. 4? We just want to make sure he will not be rejected on election day and asked to cast a provisional ballot.

Re: Check with your registrar of voters

[orange_poptart]

He'll be voting Nov. 4th, thanks for the advice! I will have him call asap to make sure he is reregistered

Ohio Verdict Overturned by U.S. Supreme Court

[tri_blog]

Ohio Verdict Overturned by U.S. Supreme Court
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/17/115243/10/83/633502

Good news!