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By Stephen Majors
Associated Press
POSTED: 01:22 p.m. EDT, Oct 20, 2008
COLUMBUS: Ohio Republicans are trying to scare newly registered voters by filing lawsuits that question their eligibility, the state's Democratic governor said today.
Gov. Ted Strickland also accused the GOP of trying to distract voters from real issues.
''In the last few days the Republicans have tried to instill fear in Ohio voters about whether their registrations to vote will be challenged and whether they will be able to cast a ballot,'' Strickland said at a news conference with other Democratic leaders, including U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman.
''We condemn these attacks which we find despicable. Ohioans deserve better than what they are getting from John McCain and the Republican Party,'' Strickland said.
The GOP has filed numerous legal challenges questioning the status of about 200,000 newly registered voters in Ohio, warning about the potential for voter fraud.
Republican fundraiser David Myhal has sued Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in the Ohio Supreme Court, arguing that Brunner is violating the law by not providing counties with the names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers don't match records in other government databases.
The filing came Friday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Brunner. The high court said the state GOP didn't have standing to bring the case.
In a separate move, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, who also serves as McCain's Southwest Ohio campaign chairman, has issued a subpoena for personal information of roughly 40 percent of the 671 voters who registered and cast a ballot on the same day during a weeklong period earlier this month.
A message seeking comment was left today for a spokesman with the Ohio Republican Party.
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 she has set up a verification plan.
Brunner has said plenty of checks and balances exist within the bipartisan county boards of elections to catch potential fraud. She said federal law does not specify what should be done if data doesn't match, and has said the mismatches were never intended to be grounds for challenging voters.
It's unclear when the Ohio Supreme Court will issue a ruling. Brunner today asked the court to send the case back to federal court because the central questions involve the Help America Vote Act, a federal law, and not state law.
Justices Maureen O'Connor and Evelyn Lundberg Stratton have removed themselves from the case, as they have in other cases involving election matters. Both are seeking re-election on the Nov. 4 ballot.
Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher on Sunday called on O'Connor and Stratton, as well as two other Republican justices, to step down from the case because a client of Myhal's helped them all get elected.
A message seeking comment from O'Connor wasn't immediately returned today. Court records don't give a reason for why she recused herself.
COLUMBUS: Ohio Republicans are trying to scare newly registered voters by filing lawsuits that question their eligibility, the state's Democratic governor said today.
Gov. Ted Strickland also accused the GOP of trying to distract voters from real issues.
''In the last few days the Republicans have tried to instill fear in Ohio voters about whether their registrations to vote will be challenged and whether they will be able to cast a ballot,'' Strickland said at a news conference with other Democratic leaders, including U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman.
''We condemn these attacks which we find despicable. Ohioans deserve better than what they are getting from John McCain and the Republican Party,'' Strickland said.
The GOP has filed numerous legal challenges questioning the status of about 200,000 newly registered voters in Ohio, warning about the potential for voter fraud.
Republican fundraiser David Myhal has sued Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in the Ohio Supreme Court, arguing that Brunner is violating the law by not providing counties with the names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers don't match records in other government databases.
The filing came Friday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Brunner. The high court said the state GOP didn't have standing to bring the case.
In a separate move, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, who also serves as McCain's Southwest Ohio campaign chairman, has issued a subpoena for personal information of roughly 40 percent of the 671 voters who registered and cast a ballot on the same day during a weeklong period earlier this month.
A message seeking comment was left today for a spokesman with the Ohio Republican Party.
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 she has set up a verification plan.
Brunner has said plenty of checks and balances exist within the bipartisan county boards of elections to catch potential fraud. She said federal law does not specify what should be done if data doesn't match, and has said the mismatches were never intended to be grounds for challenging voters.
It's unclear when the Ohio Supreme Court will issue a ruling. Brunner today asked the court to send the case back to federal court because the central questions involve the Help America Vote Act, a federal law, and not state law.
Justices Maureen O'Connor and Evelyn Lundberg Stratton have removed themselves from the case, as they have in other cases involving election matters. Both are seeking re-election on the Nov. 4 ballot.
Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher on Sunday called on O'Connor and Stratton, as well as two other Republican justices, to step down from the case because a client of Myhal's helped them all get elected.
A message seeking comment from O'Connor wasn't immediately returned today. Court records don't give a reason for why she recused herself.
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Front Line, KC
Posted 01:42 PM, 10/20/2008
Get real Strickland. You want to blame the republicans for the way you have run business out of ohio also?
Posted 01:55 PM, 10/20/2008
Strickland is an absolute joke. The guy runs his campaign under the promise that he will help Ohio's economy and it gets worse while he's in office. He tells everyone he will fund the un-funded schools, and school funding has not improved at all. Now, he's telling people that ACORN's illegal voter registrations are actually nothing more than disenfranchisement by Republicans.
Strickland, what in the world have you done while in office other than campaign for Hillary, and now, Obama?! I think I accomplished more this morning at work than you have since you've been sworn in.
Posted 01:56 PM, 10/20/2008
On a side note, I can't wait to see Dennis Willard take a strong stance in support of Strickland on this issue. I had no idea political PR reps could get actual jobs at real newspapers...
Akron, OH
Posted 02:00 PM, 10/20/2008
Sam did you actually read the article, it's the tactics being used by the Repugnants that he was speaking on. You need to run out of OHIO!
Orrville, Oh
Posted 02:29 PM, 10/20/2008
Enabling illegal aliens and nonunion parasites to cancel votes of compliant with Constitutions demands citizens. Has created a $40 trillion social security and a $9.3 trillion national debt. America’s grandchildren pay interest to foreign and domestic investors and stockholders. With money derived from wages or independent business profit. Until they are 18 years old then pay the debt with the $6.85 labor wage!
akron, oh
Posted 02:59 PM, 10/20/2008
i love how the repugnicans are saying that the dems are using the old strategy of voter suppression and fearmongering to disenfranchise voters. for christs sake, are they just cut and pasting the dems' concerns from '04 or is it me???
the dems ARE known for their disenfranchisement of the voters, especially the blacks in the 60's. the dems were so solidly against the civil rights act...oh wait that was the repugnicans. the dems also purged legal voters off the rolls in 00 and 04 in florida...nope, repugs again...
Akron, OH
Posted 03:55 PM, 10/20/2008
What is most telling of all about this is that Democrats seem to see nothing wrong with having 30% of new voter registrations this year be erroneous as long as they come from Obama supporters like ACORN and the dropouts who weren't even responsible enough to finish high school much less be responsible enough to go to a library, public high school, BMV or other approved registration place.
Who in their right mind wants this kind of error rate to be available for being dragged out on Election Day and the days/weeks after, if there is recount after recount the way there was in Florida???? EVERYONE should want the database as error-free as possible, but right now, it seems like Brunner etc. are fine with this slop!
Posted 03:58 PM, 10/20/2008
ONE THING FOR SURE...ANYONE WHO WILL VOTE DEMOCRAT IS ALLOWD TO VOTE WITH OR WITHOUT AN id OR A RECOGNIZABLE NAME....ON THE EAST COAST....ONCE IN NEW yORK, ONCE IN FLORIDA.
IN READING ABOVE..IT IS EASY TO SEE THE LIBERALS ARE MENTALY DERANGED
AS A CONSERVATIVE...HOW MANY ID'S WILL I NEED TO VOTE? I GUARANTEE ONE IN PERFECT CONDITION.
MAYBE THE NEW SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT WILL FIX THE POT HOLES IN THE LIBERAL HEADS....
canton, oh
Posted 04:12 PM, 10/20/2008
vote often vote democrat.....LOL!!!
Posted 05:09 PM, 10/20/2008
Tactics..what did I do?
I'd be a Federalist if George Washington were still here.ADemocrat is a poor excuse for pride let alone thinking.Look at Akron!!!!
While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Ah........TOO BAD !!!!!!
akron, oh
Posted 05:11 PM, 10/20/2008
Felicia - seems like your cordial post is NOT in the spirit of Obama love and togetherness. Pretend hippies are always the most unauthentic and insincere.
Posted 05:27 PM, 10/20/2008
Note to Ohioans -- there is NO evidence -- none, nada, zippo -- to suggest that fraudulent registrations turn into actual fradulent voters on Election Day. This is all desperate GOP distraction from real issues.
Posted 06:33 PM, 10/20/2008
well let all the fradulent voters put him office,now Biden is saying withing 6 months after he is in office he (obama) will be tested to see if he can handle it. We are in for some real rough times and its not only going to be on the side of the economy
