Supreme Court Sides With Ohio Election Officials On Fraudulent Voter Registrations

• October 17, 2008

The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio’s top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.
The justices on Friday 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.

I don’t know much about the law here, but it does seem a bit unreasonable to expect Ohio to implement new voter registration systems this close to the election.
That being said, voter registration fraud and the voter fraud it results in is still a serious problem in Ohio and across the nation (wherever pro-Obama advocacy groups like ACORN are at work).
The left will tell you that the right is just trying to suppress liberal voters. But the truth is that while all eligible citizens have a right to vote, all voters have a right not to have their vote canceled out by a vote cast by someone who isn’t eligible. Or who is voting more than once.
Update: More:

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.

Here’s the opinion.

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http://Array James

If Mickey Mouse can vote, he can also be POTUS!

MICKEY ’08
pparets

The Supreme Court did not side with anyone in this decision. The Court found that the Ohio GOP lacked ‘standing’ to pursue the matter.

That said, this should be a wake-up call to all of us regarding the future nature of the Court should Barack Obama be the one nominating future appointees to the federal bench.
Rhonda Tracey

well let’s do it conservatives.. it’s time to cheat… let’s start our own registration drive and send in fake names, etc. that don’t match up to anything cause we just found out that no one is responsible for anything in this country anymore..not the election board in ohio, not the state of ohio…wow anything goes now… let’s jump on the gravy train… WAIT..no we won’t jump on the democrat liberal user train.. we will beat cheaters everytime it’s tried and we won’t stoop to your level.. freedom for all..stop voter fraud.. it steals a part of everything we have come to know… McCain/Palin ’08 Victory… we will not spread the wealth around like socialist obama… you will earn your own keep and feel so much better about yourself, your community and your country…
Eneils Bailey

Hey,

I only gotstha vote one time.

How the hell are we gonna win with those kind of rules.
amy katz

I guess this is karma biting back after the fraud of the 2004 election
jmartin

My God, is this the NeoCons cave that I’ve stumbled into ?
Are you all blinded by the DARK ? The most massive voter fraud to occur in American history was in 2000. Why weren’t you screaming for justice / democracy then ?
This isnt’ the superbowl it’s an election that will effect the direction of this country. YOU had the white house, the Senate and the House of Rep.s … for SIX years. For the first time in history.
What direction have you taken this nation ?
Record spending ( levels to make a liberal blush ) Record increase in Government ( 40%) . When the Drug companies were charging Americans 2-3 times the price in other countries… what was the Bush Plan ??? a Prescription Drug Plan was invented ! 400 Billion / year. Paid for by the taxpayers( not the wealthy ones either ) Bush ” I pledge 50 billion dollars to fight AIDS in Africa ” translation is: Taxpayer dollars funneled directly to the Drug Lobbyists.
Bankruptcy protection for those banks charging consumers 25 percent + interests rates.
Those same banks that BUSH and Cabinet allowed the biggest Pyramid Scheme since the S&L crisis ( during the last Bush reign ) Was there ever a Veto by the president in those 6 years ? One Republican scandal after another… Homo’s, Pediphials and corruption beyond belief… Delay, Stevenson, etc. And when a story about McCain selling off army land for less than pennies on the dollar to his ” good ole boys ” on the lobbyist list you somehow absolve him , point your finger and say ” Look, over there ” McCain who says ” I’ve been fighting ( for )corruption my whole life “…
It’s people like you that gave us Bush/Chaney. Aren’t you proud. You’ve indirectly raised the Natl Debt by more than 8 trillion dollars with your lavish “conservative ” spending. Decide to set-up missiles along the border of Russia and gasp at the audacity of them to attack Georgia. While we tell them ” it’s ok, they are “defensive missiles, we can still be friends”. Which of you would accept Russia setting up missiles in Cuba knowing they were only “defensive missles”. My point is this. Pull your collective heads out of the ass in front of you. I’m climbing back up out of this cave for some fresh air and light.
http://mensnewsdaily.com/ EyeDoc

There’s obviously nothing the Democrats won’t do to win. They tried to steal Florida in 2000 even though they lost the first vote count and 2 recounts. Now they’re multiplying their efforts by trying to steal 15 states at the same time. I think it’s clear that this is going to be another contested election, but it will involve legal action in multiple states simultaneously. It’s going to make 2000 look like a walk in the park. I hope the RNC is getting their legal team assembled because they’re going to be very busy when November 4 comes around.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

The most massive voter fraud to occur in American history was in 2000.

You’ve got a great future in stand-up, jmartin!
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Rhonda, what we should do is to start a fake news story that conservatives are out there doing what the Democrats are doing.

When this rates concern in the Obamamedia then we turn the tables on them.
NANCIANNE

Hurrrrayyyyyyy!!!!!!
anonymous

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/Diebold_CEO_resigns_after_reports_of_1212.html

Let us not forget the not so distant past.
Harry

Yes. Void all illegal registrations. This is what happens when rules are not followed or breaking the law. It looks like Ohio does have rules of law to follow.
http://pursuingholiness.com/ sayanything-26743

it does seem a bit unreasonable to expect Ohio to implement new voter registration systems this close to the election.

Not that it changes anything, but from reading the 6th circuit opinion, it seemed clear that they weren’t demanding she do anything new. Just resume the old methods that she used to do, and that were described in her own manual.

For example:

The apparent “turn[ing] off’ of this voter-registration-verification process, or at least the discovery that it had been turned off, prompted this dispute. For reasons that the record does not reveal and at a time the record does not reveal, the Secretary of State apparently chose to deactivate at least part of the process, if not all of the process, described in section 15.4 of her manual. In particular, she concedes that at some point she stopped communicating with the county boards about mismatches and stopped renewing validation requests with the BMV after obtaining a mismatch.

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