Thread: High court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute

High court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute


59 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter registration forms don't match records in other government databases.

Ohio Republicans contended the information for counties would help prevent fraud. Brunner said the GOP is trying to disenfranchise voters.

In a brief unsigned opinion, the justices said they were not commenting on whether Ohio is complying with a provision of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 that lays out requirements for verifying voter eligibility.

Instead, they said they were granting Brunner's request because it appears that the law does not allow private entities, like the Ohio GOP, to file suit to enforce the provision of the law at issue.

About 200,000 of 666,000 voters who have registered in Ohio since Jan. 1 have records that don't match. Brunner has said the discrepancies most likely stem from innocent clerical errors rather than fraud but has set up a verification plan.

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said lower court rulings have clearly said the HAVA regulations require the secretary of state to match against the list, find where there's been fraud and inconsistencies and report them to counties.

"Why in the world would that not happen? We have the technology, the budget, the means and the manpower to make that happen. Do we really want to have to find out after the fact that we had counties that would have been decided one way or another because the secretary of state didn't bother doing the job the HAVA required?" Davis told reporters on a conference call. "I think the secretary of state ought to do her job," he added.

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"I think the secretary of state ought to do her job," he added.

I agree.

Shall we all start calling her and reminding her that her job is NOT indefinite and American citizens only can vote in elections ??

It looks like its open season on Conservatives!!

The election is a farce, our right to vote has been taken away, all our rights will disapear within 2 years.

Amazing that this discovery of mis-matched voter registrations have no really been noticed before, and the courts are now busy sorting this stuff out, only three weeks before the deadline of Nov. 4.
I really hope that the courts do not have to decide the next president...again.

Thats just the tip of the iceberg..we have an illegal alien running for president.At least until he shows the court the legal docs one has only this conclusion to believe.