Federal Court Takes on Voter Fraud in Ohio
Acorn continues to cause trouble for Democrats nationwide: a federal court in Ohio has now ruled that the state’s top officials should set up ‘a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters and make the information available to the state’s 88 county election boards.’ The ruling came in response to many complaints about voter registration fraud, committed by organizations such as Acorn.
The case was filed by Republicans, against Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Bruner, a Democrat. She had refused to double check the new registration forms, which were filed en masse, many of them probably fraudulent.
‘The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling’ that she ‘must use other government records to check thousands of new voters for registration fraud.’
A week ago, a three-judge panel had disagreed. The full court, however, has now overruled that decision.
There are two main problems the fake forms cause:
1. It allows non-existing individuals to vote before election day, when rules are less tight. Some people have been known to travel from state to state, so as to register and vote in several of them, and thereby distorting the election process.
2. It causes election workers to work overtime, in fact, they cannot do their job: thousands of fake registration forms all have to be reviewed by them… by hand. The fake forms cause a major problem, for it is virtually impossible for these officials to do so in time. This means that real voters suffer, for their registration form may not be approved before the deadline.
Bruner, meanwhile, has shown herself to be a particular partisan hack, as seldom seen anywhere in the country. Rather than making sure that voters, real voters, will decide these elections, she tried to enable fraudulent organizations that try to win the elections for Obama through illegal means. By doing so, she has made a charicature of democracy.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is watching, learning and commenting: America, the self-proclaimed country of the free and of democracy, seems unable to organize elections without massive fraud.
And yes, the world does notice, and no, it does not improve America’s standing in the world, let alone it’s ‘moral leadership.’
The overlap of registration period and early voting period is especiallly troubling IMO. Not only is it problematic to have same day registration and voting (those ballots, once cast, can’t be traced back to an individual voter, so there’s NO opportunity to weed out those that might be illegitimately cast) but then also, the Ohio Sec of State Brunner declined to put any poll watchers in place during this period. When questioned about it, her spokesperson (who was interviewed by phone by a Cleveland radio talk show host) hung up when he was challenged about this! They’re response basically was that it was the legislature’s job to put those safeguards in place and they had neglected to do so- but the interviewer repeatedly pointed out that there was NOTHING that stopped Brunner from doing it and this was part of her responsibility in overseeing the integrity of the election. The spokesperson obviously had no answer to that, and ran away from the scrutiny.
We’d never allow people to vote on election day without polling supervisors to ensure that there wasn’t any coercion or other problems going on- and we know that ACORN canvassers who are filing all of these late registrations are directly telling people to vote for Obama, and paying people off with cigarettes or other bribes. It’s astonishing that Brunner won’t admit to the obvious problems that existed with the same day voting process.
You can register to vote as many times as you want, but when it comes to voting, you can only do that once, you have to have a voters registration card, has your name on it. And you have to show proof of ID before you step up to vote. This is the way WV does it, it is really simple, your name is not right with the address on your drivers license or photo ID, you dont vote.
Many states here make voting so simple that anyone can vote, including the dead. Democrats fight tooth and nail the use of tamper-proof photo IDs. Now why would they not want everyone to use a valid ID to vote? The answer is self-apparent. I have a crazy idea: Let’s make doubly sure only qualified people can vote, and then we simply accept the results.