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« on: October 21, 2008, 06:36:49 PM »

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Quin-essential cases: No Righting Voting Wrongs in Ohio

By Quin Hillyer
Examiner Columnist | 10/21/08 10:20 AM

Topping the list of most important legal cases this election year may be one in which the Supreme Court did not rule on the merits, and about which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) turned a blind eye to justice. Rampant voter fraud may well result.

The nation’s highest court ruled Friday that, for now, a federal district court cannot force Ohio’s Secretary of State to enforce federal elections laws that she is flagrantly ignoring. Oddly enough, the Supreme Court is right: A loophole allows the Secretary of State to make a mockery of the law – unless and until DOJ steps in.

But DOJ is so busy suppressing political speech that it can’t be bothered with enforcing voting laws. This is especially true for voting laws that inconvenience the campaign of Barack Obama – to whom top DoJ election lawyers have given large campaign donations.

If Attorney General Michael Mukasey doesn’t step in, he’s a virtual accessory to the crime.

The case itself is rather straightforward. Ohio’s election laws allow for early voting even for newly registered voters – of which there are an astonishing 666,000 in recent months. The federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) requires “the chief State election official [and local election officials]… to match information in the database of the statewide voter registration system… to verify the accuracy of the information provided on applications for voter registration.”

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, acknowledges there are “discrepancies” on some 200,000 new registrations, but she adamantly refuses to provide the county election boards with the state voter registration information necessary for the cross-checks.

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http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/QuinHillyer/Quin-essential_cases_No_Righting_Voting_Wrongs_in_Ohio.html
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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2008, 06:42:11 PM »

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Brunner’s second argument is essentially that she is just too busy, and that it will cause massive disruption to her election preparations, to comply with federal law. Of course, some might say that making sure voter registrations are accurate is an essential part of preparing for an election. She also claims that the state was carrying out the verification process, but was stopped by her predecessor. Of course, she was elected in 2006, so even if that is true (and there is some doubt about that), it is obviously no excuse. She could have easily done that when she took office.

You might ask, Where has the U.S. Department of Justice been in all of this? After all, they are supposed to be enforcing HAVA. Why didn’t they sue the Ohio secretary of state themselves? Why haven’t they sued the Wisconsin Board of Elections, which is also not complying with Section 303? (The Wisconsin state attorney general was forced to file such a suit, a suit that may now be in jeopardy due to the Supreme Court’s holding.) Only Michael Mukasey knows whether DOJ will finally starting enforcing the law and search for ACORNs in Buckeye country, or allow potential fraud to go completely uninvestigated.

 — Hans A. von Spakovsky is a visiting legal scholar at the Heritage Foundation. He is also a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission and counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2JhM2RiNzE5Mjg1NzdkZmI1ZTM4YzE5NzI0YjJmMWQ=&w=MQ==

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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2008, 09:42:09 PM »

Jennifer Brunner reminds me of Karen Janssen.

Both are pretending to do the jobs for which they receive pay.

 
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