Friday, October 17. 2008
Good News for Democracy
From The Huffington Post:
Remember, what the GOP wanted was not actually enforcement of the law. They wanted the names, so they could challenge the individual voters.
Voter Supression is the REAL vote fraud, not bad registrations. There were thousands of people disenfranchised by GOP tactics in Ohio in 2004. There were FOUR instances of voter fraud.
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.
Remember, what the GOP wanted was not actually enforcement of the law. They wanted the names, so they could challenge the individual voters.
Voter Supression is the REAL vote fraud, not bad registrations. There were thousands of people disenfranchised by GOP tactics in Ohio in 2004. There were FOUR instances of voter fraud.
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