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Federal appeals court orders Ohio SOS to check all new voter registration


The case won’t be viewable until tomorrow but here’s the Plain Dealer blog on what’s happening:

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Ohio’s top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of new voters and make the information available to the state’s 88 county election boards.

The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a lower court ruling that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must use other government records to check thousands of new voters for registration fraud.

A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit had disagreed last week, but the full court’s ruling overturns that decision.

Ohio Republicans had sued Brunner, a Democrat. Her spokesman had no immediate comment Tuesday.

It says that, “Tuesday’s order directs Brunner to verify new registrations by comparing that information with data from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration.”

The unavailability of the opinion? From the Court of Appeals’ website:

The Court issued an Order in Case No. 08-4322, Ohio Republican Party v. Jennifer Brunner, which can be viewed on the case docket through pacer and accessed from our website on October 15, 2008.

My question is: shouldn’t this be appealed to the Supreme Court, since there are new voter registrations in every state and why should one federal appeals court govern one state, when the issue is the same in several and possibly all?  We’re talking one person one vote – should be uniform, even if it’s not.  Isn’t that part of what HAVA sought to accomplish?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:22 pm October 14th, 2008 in Democrats, Elections, Government, Ohio, Politics, Republicans, Voting, WH2008 

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