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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Supressing (Republican) Votes In Ohio

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has a reputation as the most partisan state official in Ohio. And she works hard to earn it. The Democrat's latest stunt rejected absentee ballots for thousands of Republicans.
...now she's hassling Republicans who want to vote for John McCain.

Two Hamilton County voters have sued, accusing her of "the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters."

The John McCain campaign sent out more than 1 million applications for absentee ballots to Republicans. Each had a line at the top next to a box: "I am a qualified elector."

Brunner sent a memo telling county election officials to reject those applications for absentee ballots if the box was not checked. "Failure to check the box leaves both the applicant and the board of elections without verification that the applicant is a 'qualified elector'," she wrote.

But that's contrary to state law and Brunner doesn't have the authority, according to the lawsuit and an opinion from Hamilton County's Republican Prosecutor Joe Deters.

Nice.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is reminiscent of how Obama got rid of his Illinois State Senate opponent. He challenged the names on her nominating petitions and had enough of the signers disqualified, many on minor technicalities, to be able to have his opponent removed from the ballot. It seems like Chicago politics have migrated to Ohio.