Ohio Files Appeal to Supreme Court on Voter Registration Data - WaPo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101600702.html

By Mary Pat Flaherty
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 16, 2008; 5:37 AM

Ohio's Attorney General filed an emergency appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court late Wednesday night seeking to block a lower court decision that could cost many thousands of Ohio voters a chance to cast a regular ballot on Nov. 4.

The battleground state already has become the setting for a series of lawsuits over voter eligibility. About 660,000 new voters have registered since January with an edge to Democrats.

The filing on behalf of Democratic Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner contends that upholding a Tuesday decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit would create havoc on Election Day and cause many voters to cast "provisional" ballots that may or may not ultimately be tallied depending on judgments by local elections boards.

Ohio Republicans have been battling Brunner contending the state system for verifying voter registration information is difficult for local officials to use in gleaning lists of individuals whose information contains a discrepancy. Those voters could be challenged about their eligibility to cast a regular ballot Nov. 4 and receive a provisional ballot instead that would be counted only if a voter's eligibility later was established.

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This is part of an e-mail i got from her this AM ...
I know her just a little bit and she is everything that
Ken Blackwell was not.

Trust me Jennifer will make sure one way or another that
the new voters votes will be counted.

Sec. of State J. Brunner,

Well, it seems that "the Good Old Boys" are trying to test you and your
commitment to make sure that everybody who has the right to vote and wants to vote
will be able to vote. All that crap about Acorn and those "bad forms" now seems like just a
cover story and that their real goal was voter suppression of democrats .... nothing more
and nothing less.

This is your time and I know you will pass this test w/ flying colors
and that those new voters will get to vote and that their votes will be counted.


all the best,
tom k


Thanks, Tom. We'll get through all of this. Thanks for your kindness and support.
Jennifer