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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH (Ohio): "VOTER ROLLS IN OHIO ARE BLOATED"
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH (Ohio): "VOTER ROLLS IN OHIO ARE BLOATED"
Columbus, Ohio • Nov 09, 2012 • 32° Light Fog THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Dispatch.com INACTIVE REGISTRATIONS Voter rolls in Ohio are bloated "More than one out of every five registered Ohio voters is probably ineligible to vote. In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population:....." |
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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH (Ohio): "VOTER ROLLS IN OHIO ARE BLOATED"
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 01:15:11 -0800 (PST), "PJ O'D"
wrote: THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH (Ohio): "VOTER ROLLS IN OHIO ARE BLOATED" Columbus, Ohio • Nov 09, 2012 • 32° Light Fog THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Dispatch.com INACTIVE REGISTRATIONS Voter rolls in Ohio are bloated "More than one out of every five registered Ohio voters is probably ineligible to vote. In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population:....." "Husted Continues to Push The Big Lie: Voter Fraud By Leonidas On September 17, 2012 Secretary of State John Husted – with help from the Columbus Dispatch — continues to repeat the Big Lie in this election, that voter fraud is an issue in Ohio. On Sunday, Husted and the Dispatch continued to try to stir the pot on election fraud. Fortunately, other media outlets in Ohio effectively called them out on this BS. Regular Plunderbund readers know why this is important. The Republicans this election cycle have engaged in a national effort to restrict the ability of people to vote through voter ID laws and other restrictions. In Ohio – which already has a voter ID law – the efforts have focused on restricting early voting. Sunday, the Dispatch ran a front page article titled, “Voter rolls in Ohio are bloated, experts say.” The article cites as evidence that Ohio’s voter rolls contain about 1.6 million inactive voters. Inactive voters are generally people who have not voted in recent elections or have moved. So is this a big deal? No. The primary reason that the voting rolls contain lots of inactive voters is simple: people move. Hard to believe, but when they move, people commonly don’t tell their OLD Board of Elections that they have moved to a new county. This is especially true of students. Interestingly, despite the headline claiming that “experts” say the voting lists are “bloated” – no actual non-partisan expert is quoted in the article. Certainly nobody is quoted in the article to justify the loaded term, “bloated.” Frankly, we are surprised that the number of inactive voters is so low. More importantly, we aren’t sure why this is a big deal – the only problem we can see is that a precinct list may take a couple more pages to print out. John Husted – fresh off his loss on early voting in Federal Court – jumps into the fray. He says, “Common sense says that the odds of voter fraud increase the longer these ineligible voters are allowed to populate our rolls.” Husted seems, as the Dispatch suggests, to be taking his talking points from a right wing group called Judicial Watch, which has filed lawsuits in a number of states relating to inactive voters on the voting lists. So far, none of these lawsuits have been successful. Husted is wrong and his efforts to suggest that voter fraud is a problem in Ohio is reckless. A trial lawyer we know said over breakfast, “whenever someone refers to ‘common sense’ to support a claim, that means he has no evidence.” We decided to see what a real expert on election law says about the evidence. Daniel P. Tokaji, a law professor at Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law, is the most knowledgeable person we know about election law. Last year, he wrote: I’ve closely studied Ohio’s election system for the past eight years, and am not aware of a single proven incident of in-person voter impersonation fraud – that is, a voter going to the polls pretending to be someone he or she is not. If there are any incidents of in-person voter impersonation in Ohio, they are extremely rare. Yet that is the only type of fraud that a government-issued photo ID requirement can even hope to address. . . ." http://www.plunderbund.com/2012/09/1...e-voter-fraud/ |
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