GOP Efforts to Scrutinize Voter Registrations Make Little Headway

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Attempts by Republicans in several states to place voter registrations under added scrutiny are being rejected or abandoned, as states scramble to clear up voting procedures before Election Day. ...

... “Given the inherent limitations of the verification system and the language of the Help America Vote Act it is plainly apparent that it is not to be used as a sole basis to determine a voter’s eligibility or even to cause that voter to vote provisionally,” Brunner wrote in her directive to election officials.

Brunner, a Democrat, has been fighting with the Ohio Republican Party about the matching process. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a temporary restraining order sought by the GOP, which would have required thousands of newly registered Ohio voters to undergo extra scrutiny through election-board investigations of mismatches.

After the high court’s ruling, a Republican fund-raiser filed suit over the same issue in Ohio Supreme Court, but he later withdrew the case. ...

Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/23/gop-efforts-to-scrutinize-voter-registrations-make-little-headway/

Expect the mother of all caging campaigns in Ohio.