Ohio ordered to verify new voter registrations
Allahpundit’s got the lowdown on a Sixth Circuit court ruling tonight, which orders fraud-friendly Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to implement a new system to verify voter registrations.
Darke GOP has quick analysis of the decision (hat tip - Patrick Poole):
A 3-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a temporary restraining order which would effectively make Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner follow the law - and do her job - in preventing election fraud. Tonight, the full court decided to hear the case en banc, and has reimposed the TRO. This is great news.
Here are some highlights:
“So far as this record is concerned, the Secretary has given no tenable exlanation why her current interpretation of the statute, as opposed to the office’s prior implementation of the law, remotely furthers the anti-fraud objective of the law.”
The Ohio Republican Party’s position is “not only sensible but it is also fair - and it also furthers both objectives of HAVA …”
The court mocks Brunner’s defense as “[t]he bureaucrats’ lament - that this will be difficult to do.”
UPDATE: In looking at the decision, it appears the full court voted 9-6 to hear the case en banc (which means all of them). I’d say the 9-6 vote is a good sign, but doesn’t necessarily mean the case will end that way. Tonight’s decision has been described as the opportunity to “live and fight another day.” But in the world of temporary restraining orders, if you have it, that’s all that matters for the time being. And the time being is what is crucial right now.
Thug thizzlin’ just got a wee bit harder.
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Why can’t we do purple ink on our fingers like they do in Iraq?
But But Mickey Mouse is real! You can’t do that!
How many Richard Smokers, Stewart Padasos, and Micheal Hunts have been registered multiple times?
BTW, I am volunteering to be a poll sitter on election day..
Any tips, suggestions as to what to look out for?
I would be fine with purple fingers. Since that would prevent the poor backs from voting, according to ACORN I guess that would male me racist.
What about the thugs who already thizzled? (voted)
FIrst, apparently ACORN did not get the memo from Hamas and the Hezbos on Mickey Mouse. They would like to see him dead.
Next is that I think some are overlooking the impact this ACORN mess has on local issues and local politics. Then it moves towards Congressional elections. So it does not end at just the Presidential election.
The media is just applying this to the current Presidential election. Wonder why? Hmmm, how many Clinton supporters would be ticked off beyond, beyond if they thought Obama stole the election from Hillary in more ways than one? I would say about 18 million plus!
On October 14th, 2008 at 10:52 pm, Bud Fox said:
What derrogatory name do you call someone who is against mice voting?
Mouse-ist?
Maybe an iris scan would do it.
Looks like the crowd has moved to this thread. I have a question (which I just posted on another topic).
On October 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm, committed said:
A co-worker told me today that her son, who is stationed in CA right now, has not received his absentee ballot (he is stationed in the same base as he was during the last election). He called and asked if she could check on it. She said the election offical told her he had to request the absentee ballot or it wouldn’t be sent. Does that sound right? We live in NC
On October 14th, 2008 at 10:50 pm, MtsEdge said:
Why can’t we do purple ink on our fingers like they do in Iraq?
Sounds like he might need it.
How did that brain dead women get that job?
GEEESSS!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Jesus, for this Sixth Circuit court ruling!
[I'm not trying to annoy the non-Christians, but I want to give thanks for answered prayer.]
Sounds like “we” might need it.
A 9-6 vote is a strong indication where this going.
YEA!
That will work. The ones with the purple Kool Aid stained lips are the Obama voters.
Did anyone hear Rush today when he was talking to the caller that was a part of the Lawyers for Bush in the last presidential election? It sounds like Republicans have a hard time at the voting sites during elections.
Check it out.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101408/content/01125113.member.html
Not that the ruling isn’t good, but it does only provide that she do her job, which (if anyone has been paying attention) she does not perform well at.
Just how corrupt IS Ohio, or is it just Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner? I see their Attorney General is Nancy H. Rogers, a Democrat. Some how I do not see the Democrat Attorney General doing HER, but there have been exceptions. But they are just that, exceptions.
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ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
1)Blocks of C-4 or capped pipes under your vehicle with wires attached to the starting system.
2)Any other kinds of ‘thug-thizzle’.
Why is it I can remember a time that this was a no brainer? The standards, principles, morals, and virtues that made this country great are being tossed aside for New Age shenanigans.
Have the nutroots started foaming at the mouth and screaming ‘voter suppression’ yet?
Just wait… it’s coming.
already have Cant cure…. in the made up letter to the McCain camp.
If it were up to me and I had to verify or guarantee the accuracy and fairness of voter registration and election counts, I would require picture ID and fingerprint scans for all voters. Registration should be with birth certificate and social security number. Why should voter laws be any different than DMV laws?
Rush Limbaugh played a tape recording of Representative Mahoney firing his mistress. What, no separation pay? Maybe that is one seat the Republicans can get back. That was Republican Mark Foley’s-he got nailed by a sex scandle–lewd e-mail to boys–too. West Palm Beach does seem to have a problem.
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ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
Geez, that’s just pathetic. Do you have a link, by any chance?
Are you kidding me? Of course that is right. If you do not request an absentee ballot why would you expect to get one? If that was the case, everyone would get an absentee ballot and vote twice.
“Will this ruling affect my rights as a voter here in Florida?” ~ Mickey Mouse
“I too am concerned as to how my right to make my voice heard at the poll will be impacted by this ruling.” ~ Levi McIntosh…died November 16, 2007/registered to vote in Lake County Indiana August 2008
Let me tell you what you can expect from this.
ACORN/DNC poll watchers will double up in another attempt to push through any questionable ballots, and if there aren’t enough GOP poll watchers there to push back most of those phony ballots will get counted.
I’ve been pushing [with some success] to get more poll watchers signed up at my local GOP Headquarters as past experience tells me we will need everyone we can muster. While you are at home, and/or at work, I’ll be out there fighting to keep the polls functioning as they should according to my States laws. Win or lose, I’ll later be able to tell of how I fought the good fight for American Democracy.
Wouldn’t you like to be able to do the same?
RAAAAAACCCCIIIIIIIIIISSSSMMMMMMMM!!!!!
Or however you spell it.
+1 on the purple finger idea.
Love the purple fingers…
I guess the Obamites/ACORN would have 10 purple fingers. Maybe a couple of purple toes too.
Waaaaaaah!!
You mean I have to actually WORK at my Ohio Sec. of State job???
But there’s so much paperwork to do!!
And it takes even longer if you want me to do it correctly!!
Waaaaaaaah!!
That’s all well and good, and, frankly, ACORN deserves to be skewered. Something you might want to do is let the US DoJ know about it.
Frankly, I doubt they’ll do anything except look the other way, but their email address is “ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov”
Try shooting them an email telling them what you think about ACORN and their … their what? Throwing the election?
How dare I say anything bad about the one!
I live here in Ohio and trying to touch base with any Republican steering committee on anything is nigh on impossible. I wouldn’t mind being a poll watcher as well, but I can’t even find where to get a bumper sticker, let alone anything else. I haven’t noticed too much trouble in the past at my polling station (Catholic church, no signs, people well behaved, rural area) but why take a chance. Beyond that, here’s a good one for you guys…recall democrats always say that conservatives are discriminatory, yet I spoke to an older feller today who claimed “he’ll vote for anyone other than a Republican, even a black guy.” Isn’t that just special?? To which I then responded that I’d vote for a tribble from Star Trek before I’d vote for a democrat…which, for some reason, left him utterly speechless. I really think if Palin, not McCain, made a few more stops in this area (and Palin is coming to Marietta soon) plus acorn getting shut down could still put Ohio on the right side of this election. If anyone knows a point of contact in southeastern Ohio that could lend a hand in getting me a lousy bumper sticker I’d much appreciate it.
It is right he does need to request an Absentee Ballot to have it sent.
He can also get with his voting assistance officer at his unit and request a federal write in ballot. This will allow him to at least vote in federal races and he may even be able to use it for state races too. His voting assistance officer will be able to help him fill out the heading and explain how the federal write in ballot works.
Don’t know the laws of Ohio but doesn’t this count as malfeasence of office and should it be an impeachable offence. If anything, the citizens of Ohio should be ashamed for letting someone such as Brunner ever achieve a position of such responsibility. What makes it worse is the audacity she exhibits once caught and only makes her position worse with silly statements about having to do the work she is paid to do.
Dead people and animals.
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner should resign immediately. Today. She is a disgrace and a pox on the good state of Ohio.
Personally, I think every state needs to do this, since there’s so much voter fraud in various states. It only makes sense.
Who cares if we don’t know who’s president on Nov. 5th? It can wait a few days, while we make sure we have an accurate and fair tally.
Voter integrity is crucial to insure the continuation of our democracy! There are plenty of examples, however of those who do not want any part of our present government. They have demonstrated their intentions for the past forty five years with violence, lies, corruption, intimidation and not producing anything. Their values are bankrupt and that has led to our present financial situation.
And to further that thought, the caller also spoke of extra ballots being cast for the no-shows at the end of the polling period; and poll workers showing voters which handle to pull, etc.
These Marxists will surely riot in the streets if they don’t win. They done been cheatin’ too hard to lose this one. I am more flabbergasted every day at the naked criminality of the Left. They appear to have no fear of the law. Do they know something we don’t?
What about a system of finger printing at designated voter registration offices as being the only way to vote?
I don’t care if the Jessie Jacksons scream or not! This should be the law, it’s too important for it not to have a dedicated system.
That’ll limit Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s backers to voting only ten times.
Unless Ms. Brunner allows them to start dipping their toes in the ink, too.
I feel that the crime of voter fraud is a forgivable offence.
Complete forgiveness should be given after a mandatory 5 year minimum prison sentence.
No, they just don’t care and have no concept of moral absolutes. They are bancrupt of morals…it’s all relative to them. We are at war with an ideology that has no tolerance for what is decent and good, moral and just.
mistressjustice??? Your comments on how this ruling is meant to keep your community from voting??? Is this another form of racism in your little mind???
Where is the mistress of the dark??? It should be weighing in - in 3…2…1…
She may be a little busy at 2885 Brownlee Avenue.
Never confuse corruption with stupidity.
Actually, she lives in FL in Mahoney’s district or nearby.
Local news is reporting that Mahoney had another mistress as well and the FBI is investigating.
Wwe are received several pieces of mail for absentee ballots. We never asked for them & since the polling place is about two blocks away from our hosue, why would we want to vote absentee?? Didn’t bother to see who sent them. We just threw them out.
What’s the rush? They have until 20 JAN 09 as far as I’m concerned. When did we start thinking that 80,000,000+ ballots could be cast, counted, verified, and reported in a night or two? In as much as the MSM wants it, Presidential elections aren’t game shows.
Somehow I don’t have a lot of faith in the lazy bureaucrats at most levels of government to be able to validate any of these questionable registration forms in a timely manner. Like I have said before they should all go into the circular file, because too many have proven to be invalid or fraudulent that are associated with ACORN. I hope the Ohio GOP keeps up with a full court press to ensure this court ruling is enforced.
Absentee ballots should only be allow for someone who is either serving in the Armed Forces or working for a Federal or State agency that requires them to be outside of their state of residence otherwise it leaves the door wide open for voter fraud. Just look at the history of some of the most corrupt polling districts and see how they are flooded with absentee ballots when the results are not what the local Democrat thugs want to see.
Welcome to the United Socialist States of America! We’re boned!
So, right-wingers consider preventing New Yorkers from voting in Ohio is a good thing? Why, this is just out-and-out “statism!”
There is obviously a surplus of ballots in Ohio and someone has to be brave enough to step up to the plate and say they are not going to allow all those trees to have perished in vain.
And that just goes to show you that right-wingers don’t care about saving the rain forests or recycling paper either!
Maybe I shouldn’t be suprised that a democrat needs to be court ordered to follow the law.
Why do you suspect that a court order will have any impact on these leftists. If the court rules against them they will simply subvert the court and continue on their merry way to totalitarianism.
“Rule of law” is not a concept that leftists accept.
if you want a good laugh this morning, read the spin on salon.com (I know, I am kind of a masochist and when bored I browse the nutroots.) The comment section is especially good for a laugh. These people are totally unhinged!
I love this line:
“I am not privy to the campaign strategy of the Republican Party, but I have to assume that it is the result of a coordinated disinformation campaign aimed not only at undermining ACORN’s work, but also as a part of a far broader effort to corrode public confidence in the electoral process.”
WOW.
I know I should not be shocked by such dishonesty and hypocrisy, but I always am.
MM is referenced too, as “wildly exaggerat[ing] allegations about ACORN’s “criminality”
uh huh.
It scares me, that this current group of Democrats who don’t want to play fair….may one day have all the power (WHouse, Senate, and Congress). And that once they have all the power…they will make rules (i.e.–The Fairness Doctrine, internet controls)….that will make it impossible for us to ever seize the power back from them.
Scumbags.
I have several liberal friends who claimed to be well informed voters. Just this past weekend, I asked a couple of them what their thoughts were on ACORN and all the their voter fraud allegations. Both asked, “What’s that?”
They had never heard of ACORN and these guys are in their 30’s.
W.A.I.D.S.
Hopefully you shreaded them first.
Oddly enough, that seems to be Obamassiah’s response too!
I’m not privy either, but….. guilty as charged! Man, this guy is good, I dont even have a comeback for that assertion.
what no goofy, donald, or daisy??
I smell a discrimination suit, can’t have ducks registered??