WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2008
Court Backs Dem In Ohio Voting Dispute
Supreme Court Sides With Election Official In Dispute With State Republican Party Over Voter Registrations
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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.
"It's technical but it amounts to a loss for the GOP and a victory for Brunner," said CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen.
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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- Greedy OLD Party trying to suppress our Freedom and Liberty to vote. Their true color is showing. RepubliCONs RED banner missing only the sickle and the hammer!!!
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- Greedy OLD Party trying to suppress our Freedom and Liberty to vote. Their true color is showing. RepubliCONs RED banner missing only the sickle and the hammer!!!
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- Supreme Court Sides With Election Official In Dispute With State Republican Party Over Voter Registrations
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- There is an obvious, very disturbing trend here to DENY and LIMIT our Liberty and Freedom to vote by the RepubliCON Party throughout America. Report after report all across America during this and the past elections. America needs to stand up and vote these jerks out of political office. The RepubliCON RED banner missing only the sickle and the hammer!!!
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- There is an obvious, very disturbing trend here to DENY and LIMIT our Liberty and Freedom to vote by the RepubliCON Party throughout America. Report after report all across America during this and the past elections. America needs to stand up and vote these jerks out of political office. The RepubliCON RED banner missing only the sickle and the hammer!!!
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- "...the discrepancies most likely stem from innocent clerical errors rather than fraud..."
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How ironic that the party that accuses ACORN of "destroying the fabric of Democracy" is attempting to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters, eh?
Democracy is not defined as "win any way you can"..... - Reply to this comment
- Republicans= Putin fascists.
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- Gee! I wonder how a Republican could notice something in error with Voter Registration. Maybe they are a "graduate of Bush''s College of Stealing Election Knowledge".
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- If you fill out your form perfectly, and a clerical worker misreads an a as an o, or any other error, you could be part of that 1 out of 3. Should that error disenfranchise you?
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- "Brucie, nothing like calling the kettle black, even when there are more Dems than Repubs in both houses you are still able to blame the repubs, once again who is in denial?? LOL! "
The Republican''''ts have been in control of the House and Senate six out of the last eight years. If you''''ll notice, in the first draft of the Wall ST. bailout, Bush called for no oversight by anyone. The Repugnicans have no one to blame but themselves, since during the Clinton years, there was a budget surplus and jobs and money were plentiful. It was Bush that ran through the surplus, and his policies screwed up the financial industry. Own up to what you did.
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Did you notice now the McCain Mortgage Buy Back Plan also attempts to prevent the imposition of salary caps and the elimination of golden parachutes sweetening the deal for the banks from the already sweetened insurance option McCain sought in the original bill that weakened those provisions. - Reply to this comment
- tj217, deregulation has happened over the last thirty years not the last eight as you libs would so ignorantly claim. Why is it always the repubs fault? Haven''t there been just as many Dems in congress? Why is it you people need to blame just half when all are guilty?
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- I out of three don''t match? This sounds like a corrupted database and incompetent state workers.
The chemical dumbing down of america was not that effective even in Ohio. - Reply to this comment
- Brucie, nothing like calling the kettle black, even when there are more Dems than Repubs in both houses you are still able to blame the repubs, once again who is in denial?? LOL!
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- notblue
Your in denial...so is McShame! - Reply to this comment
- ibxjem, did the dems ever fillibuster when they were the minority? LOL!
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- timothone, your us or them attitude is why America ispolarized and divided, you people would rather blame felow Americans than acknowledge the truth in order to gain political points. As an American would you support whoever we vote in as president? Answer that one honestly if possible.
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- Brucie2006 is correct. That means the Dems as you put it do not have control of congress as you state. Republicans have been able to filibuster more than 80 times. That blows away the record in any congress going all the way back.
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- Has anyone noticed how the comments are no longer packed with crazy sounding Republicans defending Bush and McCain, but are instead now filled with so-called Dems who just happen to say the same kind of right-wing things, pretending to be saying those things out of disgust and concern for ''our'' party? Do these liars really think they can hold back this great revolution of ideas by pretending to be us. They seem not to understand that rats like themselves have a particular Nazi stench, and that we''ll soon sniff them out and cast them from the ship if they refuse to jump.
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