The Ohio Secretary of State has set up a situation in which a person can register to vote and vote via an absentee ballot at the same time.
Talk about a recipe for fraud!!!
Well the GOP challenged it in court, but the court said that it was legal… then the voting began, and the only office verifying that the people that were voting were eligible was Brunner’s and they were refusing to release the eligible voter lists to anyone else, including the county elections boards!!!
So the GOP freaked (DUH!) and went to court again…
And so now from The Columbus Dispatch
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is breaking federal law by not giving county elections boards the chance to determine whether new voter registrations are fraudulent, a federal judge ruled tonight.
It is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States,” said Judge George C. Smith of U.S. District Court in Columbus, in upholding the Ohio Republican Party’s request for a court order.
Smith, appointed by President Reagan, said the Help America Vote Act requires states not only to verify the identity of newly registered voters with the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the federal Social Security Administration, but to provide counties with the names of new voters whose records did not match.
Brunner’s office had been doing the verification but had not made the names available to county elections boards. The judge gave her a week to comply….
Brunner’s office said she is filing an immediate appeal with the 6th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Smith said speed is necessary because next Thursday is the deadline to challenge absentee voters; on Oct. 25 elections workers can remove ballots from envelopes that contain the only identifying information about who cast them.
He specifically cited questionable activity of one group that registered thousands of new Ohio voters: the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine said the ruling spoke volumes about Brunner, a Democrat.“Her refusal to comply with federal law raises serious concerns about her ability to objectively oversee this election. It’s especially troubling in light of her connection to ACORN and that group’s stunning confession this week of fraudulent registration activity happening right here in Ohio,” he said.
Republicans say Democrat Barack Obama has “strong ties” to ACORN, serving in the past as an attorney and “leadership trainer” for the group.
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ACORN committing Voter Fraud with 50-90% of its voter registrations in 40 US states.
ACORN received $800k from Obama’s campaign.
ACORN forced banks to give sub-prime mortgages to unqualified people. If not they would sue for racism.
Barack Obama worked as a lawyer for ACORN.
I listened to Sec Brunner on NPR the other day. A caller asked how she would know if a college student registered in Ohio, voted right then and on November 4th also voted in their home state in person or through an absentee ballot. She stated that there was no way to know, she didn’t think many would do this and if they were caught, they would be prosecuted. That was an admission that the entire process is flawed. There is a concerted effort on the part of these students to do just that.
Heres a link:
http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/30695354.html
I listened to the same NPR report as Glenn. What drives me up a wall is Brunner’s latest tactic. She is claiming that this ruling now threatens her ability to confirm registered voters.
This new law here in Ohio is a farce. I am all for having every single eligible voter vote. That is democracy. But what is happening here is a mockery of enfranchisement. And in my opinion it is unconstitutional and thus illegal.
THC–I gave this a heads up in my new roundup…
The Past Week: Recaps & Random Thoughts, October 5-12 (Cloward-Piven, Mortgage Connections w/Charts; ACORN ad; Uh-Oh-Ohio; Musings on Middle Names; Slaughtering Sarah; Feeling Prickly)
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/the-past-week-recaps-random-thoughts-october-5-12-cloward-piven-musings-on-middle-names-slaughtering-sarah-feeling-prickly/
What are your thoughts on Cloward-Piven???
[...] and the decision of the lower court was overturned. The RNC appealed this decision, and the Federal District Court then re-instated the decision of the lowest court and ordered Brunner to rele… In her briefs to the court, Brunner admits that approximately 200,000 of the votes are [...]
I LIVE IN OHIO– AND AM SO UPSET THAT THIS IS GOING ON HERE!! people are bragging of getting to vote many times for NObama over and over again? I AM JUST SICK I WISH I COULD VOTE FOR MCCAIN/PALIN MILLIONS OF TIMES!! BUT I DO NOT CHEAT!!