* Breaking News - Voter-registration lawsuit against Brunner is dropped

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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Republican fundraising consultant who brought a lawsuit against Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in the Ohio Supreme Court over verification of new voter registrations has voluntarily dismissed his case.

David Myhal of New Albany sued Brunner last week seeking an order that Brunner direct elections boards not to process absentee ballots unless they first checked the eligibility of certain voters.

Specifically, the lawsuit wanted voters reviewed when personal information they provided when they registered did not match records in state motor-vehicle and federal Social Security records.

Myhal also said he did not want to be the focus after he was criticized for filing the suit, including having Democrats call for four of the seven Supreme Court justices with ties to Myhal's firm remove themselves from the case.

"My concern was that it was inserting a political discussion into the merits of the case because of me, and I didn't think that that was fair to anybody, whether it be the secretary of state or the Supreme Court."

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/21/dismissed.html?sid=101

Happy, happy, joy, joy happy happy, joy jou...

Hope our idiot asshole AG (Wi) gets the message.

answer about upholding the AG's demands?

>>Meanwhile, U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner asked the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday to force Brunner to comply with federal law and check the mismatched records. The West Chester Republican's office said the U.S. attorney general has the authority to order Brunner to enforce the law.

Myhal also said he did not want to be the focus after he was criticized for filing the suit, including having Democrats call for four of the seven Supreme Court justices with ties to Myhal's firm remove themselves from the case.

Myhal and his firm helped get them all elected, by raising money for them and by personally giving money to their campaigns.

So the lawsuit is now likely moot, anyhow. They got the info they were suing for.

ETA: link http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE49K96820081021

....Brunner also said her office has been barraged by menacing messages – including death threats against Brunner – and a suspicious package that was mailed to the office last week containing an “unidentified powder.”

http://blog.dispatch.com/politics/2008/10/brunner_restores_web_site_stri_1.shtml

but don't that just mean he found someone "cleaner" to start a new lawsuit against Brunner?

On edit... If his four justices looked like they needed to recuse themselves, wouldnt that really lower his chances of reaching the end goal of blocking votes? So I expect this lawsuit to be restarted by someone else so they can sidestep the obvious problem and pretend they are not breaking ethics laws by their vote obstruction?