200,000 Ohio Voters

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Ohio found a way to check the 660,000 new voter registrations, and the good news is that they are only going to disenfranchise 200,000 people.


Given that those 660,000 registrations came from Democratic voter registration drives, it is fair to say that 95% of those votes would have been for Obama.  To put that in perspective, that represents a loss to Obama of about 3.5% of the votes that are cast in Ohio for President.

Real Clear Politics currently has the vote advantage for Obama in Ohio at 3.4%.  If this is accurate, then this single Republican scheme to disenfranchise Obama voters would give the election to McCain.

And this is only one of many ways that the McCain campaign will improve their vote tally on election night.

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200,000 Ohio Voters | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)
What's your source? (none / 0)

by EveningStarNM on 10/16/2008 12:04:14 AM EST

ditto (none / 0)

by hazmat on 10/16/2008 02:38:43 AM EST

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I am the software engineer (none / 0)
who did the work for the Ohio Secretary of State.  I did not want to see all 660,000 voter registrations discarded, and the Ohio Secretary of State's position was that it was impossible to comply with the court order.  I suspect this news will come out today. (http://www.thepost.ohiou.ed u/Articles/News/2008/10/16/ 25914/)

Our next step will be working with counties to try to contact 200,000 voters to determine why the records mismatched, and to fight that some of these voter registrations should be honored - at least in cases where it was the state record or data entry that was in error and not the voter registration.

We have a similar effort going on in about a dozen other states, and ACORN is also trying to contact about 200,000 voters.  The fate of all of these registrations will ultimately be in the hands of judges, and the Bush administration has done a good job putting partisan judges in all the right places.

by rbruck on 10/16/2008 06:28:11 AM EST

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Call for volunteers? (none / 0)
If it's just a matter of calling people, I would be glad to help.

by ProfRich on 10/16/2008 11:07:09 AM EST

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Not Sure (none / 0)

I'm not sure how the Ohio counties will handle this.  I suspect it will depend on the party affiliation of the supervisors of election in each county, and therein lies the problem.

An appeal of the Court's decision was filed this morning with the US Supreme Court.  I'm not sure if any of the counties will be working on this until they know whether or not the Supreme Court will hear the case.  The contention in the appeal was that there were other ways to accurately determine voter eligibility, and all 660,000 voters were deemed eligible through those methods.

I'm not sure why there isn't more news about this.  I guess it does not serve the best interests of the people who control the media outlets.  The story IS on the AP wire.

by rbruck on 10/16/2008 01:12:15 PM EST

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just wonderful (none / 0)

the buffoon democrats in control of congress the last 2 years could have/should have atleast made a cursory attempt to reform the electoral process.

but no, it was more important to bend over, pucker up their collective assholes, and get reamed by bush-cheney, than it was to actually implement any kind of democracy-enhancing agenda. after all, you call yourselves "democrats" only because you refuse to do anything that protects and sustains a healthy democracy.

by neo on 10/16/2008 08:02:29 PM EST

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