Disenfranchised?

There's a big deal being made in Ohio over potential voter fraud and ACORN registrations. The Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, contends voters would be disenfranchised if the mismatched registrations are sent out to the counties for flagging.

It makes one wonder how that is a disfranchisement, since Ohio has the same provisional ballot that we have here in Texas. When I was an election judge, we always had provisional ballots that were for situations like people wanting to vote in the wrong precinct or presenting the wrong address. That doesn't mean they couldn't vote, it just meant it was going to be a provisional ballot, that could be checked for accuracy before it was put in the ballot box with the other votes. After all, we weren't against someone voting, but they should only get one vote, just like the rest of us!

According to Democrat Brunner, the vote should go straight into the ballot box, but there isn't any way to identify that vote, should it later prove to be fraudulent. When you have people in Cleveland being registered 72 times, and if they are allowed to vote all 72 registrations, it's a convenient way of stuffing the ballot box and that isn't what America is all about.

It's past time to prosecute voter fraud, but not just for the pawns of ACORN and the Democrat party. The organization perpetrating the fraudulent registrations and the one doing the registering should be prosecuted also.

Ohio Elections Chief Appeals Court Ruling

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's top elections chief has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over whether the state is required to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility. A spokesman for Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said Thursday that an appeal has been filed with the high court. On Tuesday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati sided with the Ohio Republican Party and ordered Brunner to set up a system that provides names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers don't match records in other government databases. The GOP contends the information will help prevent fraud. Brunner, a Democrat, has called the issue a veiled attempt at disenfranchising voters and that other checks exist to help determine eligibility.