High court rejects GOP in Ohio voting dispute
Republicans had won order that state do more to check eligibility
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.
The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter registration forms don't match records in other government databases.
Ohio Republicans contended the information for counties would help prevent fraud. Brunner said the GOP is trying to disenfranchise voters.
In a brief unsigned opinion, the justices said they were not commenting on whether Ohio is complying with a provision of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 that lays out requirements for verifying voter eligibility.
Instead, they said they were granting Brunner's request because it appears that the law does not allow private entities, like the Ohio GOP, to file suit to enforce the provision of the law at issue.
About 200,000 of 666,000 voters who have registered in Ohio since Jan. 1 have records that don't match. Brunner has said the discrepancies most likely stem from innocent clerical errors rather than fraud but has set up a verification plan.
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We gotta look into this more
Was the Scotus saying it was the wrong lawsuit and if some other entity brings suit, that might bring a different
verdict?
And, once again, the Court not delving into an election matter, shows how Gore/Bush should have been decided by
Florida Supreme Court not US, in which case, Gore won.
Was the Scotus saying it was the wrong lawsuit and if some other entity brings suit, that might bring a different
verdict?
And, once again, the Court not delving into an election matter, shows how Gore/Bush should have been decided by
Florida Supreme Court not US, in which case, Gore won.
QUOTE(graham4anything @ Oct 17 2008, 04:55 PM) 
We gotta look into this more
Was the Scotus saying it was the wrong lawsuit and if some other entity brings suit, that might bring a different
verdict?
And, once again, the Court not delving into an election matter, shows how Gore/Bush should have been decided by
Florida Supreme Court not US, in which case, Gore won.
Was the Scotus saying it was the wrong lawsuit and if some other entity brings suit, that might bring a different
verdict?
And, once again, the Court not delving into an election matter, shows how Gore/Bush should have been decided by
Florida Supreme Court not US, in which case, Gore won.
I believe the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Gore. It was the US supreme Court that stepped on democracy.
QUOTE(wliberty @ Oct 17 2008, 05:02 PM)
QUOTE(graham4anything @ Oct 17 2008, 04:55 PM)
We gotta look into this more
Was the Scotus saying it was the wrong lawsuit and if some other entity brings suit, that might bring a different
verdict?
And, once again, the Court not delving into an election matter, shows how Gore/Bush should have been decided by
Florida Supreme Court not US, in which case, Gore won.
Was the Scotus saying it was the wrong lawsuit and if some other entity brings suit, that might bring a different
verdict?
And, once again, the Court not delving into an election matter, shows how Gore/Bush should have been decided by
Florida Supreme Court not US, in which case, Gore won.
I believe the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Gore. It was the US supreme Court that stepped on democracy.
that is what I said.(reread what I wrote.)
It should have ended in Florida, in which case Gore won.
If I misinterpreted what you said I apologize.
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