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Remember Hamilton County Prosecutor and McCain campaign SW Ohio chair, Joe Deters? Now we have this, from the Columbus Dispatch:
…prosecutors in at least three more Ohio counties — Delaware, Hamilton and Hardin — are looking into possible voter-registration fraud. And while Republicans continued to allege fraud in Ohio, Democrats accused McCain of running a dishonorable campaign and the GOP of “desperate tactics.”
“It causes me to wonder, quite frankly, if there may not be an effort to set up a scenario where the Ohio outcome could be challenged,” Gov. Ted Strickland said. “I think that would be terribly unfortunate if it happens.”
At the heart of the current dispute is a disagreement about what should be done when personal information from newly registered voters doesn’t match state motor-vehicle and federal Social Security databases.
Specifically:
Delaware County Prosecutor David Yost [a Republican] said his office is looking into two cases of potential voter-registration fraud that were referred to him by the board of elections.
One includes “a handful” of people whose registration confirmation cards were returned to the elections board because they were undeliverable.
The second involves a family of five, all of whom wrote on their registration cards that they were born on Jan. 1 but in different years.
The prosecutor’s office in Hardin County, about an hour northwest of Columbus, also is investigating possible registration fraud. No other information was available.
Hardin County prosecutor is Bradford Bailey who is a Republican.
Prosecutors are supposed to be non-partisan elected officials in Ohio but I confess, I would like to know which of the remaining 84 counties have GOP prosecutors and which have Democrats as prosecutors? I’m sure someone knows.
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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:10 am October 21st, 2008 in WH2008
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Governor Strickland is right. It would be unfortunate.
How many Republican county prosecutors might there be? There might be a lot.
All the more reason why Jennifer Brunner’s failure to implement sufficient checks and balances to ensure the integrity of the elections is inexcusable.
Dear Governor Ted:
Ya think?
Get a clue – these people will stop at nothing.