Posted on 10/10/2008 10:47:42 PM PDT by Gator_that_eats_Dems
CINCINNATI—A federal appeals court sided with Ohio's top elections official Friday in her running battle with Republicans over how to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a federal judge's order a day earlier that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information and make it available to Ohio's 88 county election boards.
Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and that nothing in the Help America Vote Act required her to do what the lower court ordered. A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed in a split decision.
"With less than a month until the election, and less than two weeks until the beginning of counting absentee ballots, the secretary cannot be required to undertake the extensive reprogramming and other changes to the election mechanics without complete disruption of the electoral process in Ohio," the majority said in its opinion. "The irreparable harm to the voting public caused by the district court's order is equally clear."
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith in Columbus ordered Brunner to verify new registrations by matching information on them against a database maintained by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration. He also ordered her to establish a process by which the county boards can access the information generated by the checks.
Brunner praised Friday's decision, saying there are sufficient systems in place to verify new-voter registration.
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YEP OHIO should launch a nation wide BACK-FIRE
As for the zombies, maybe they can follow their pharoah back to Hawaii, or some other paradise like Kenya, Cuba, or Venezuela and introduce subprime lending and $ocial programs to those hip spots.
GOP needs to request a hearing from the full court ASAP.
Posted on another site from an Ecuadoran gentleman named Antonio Sosa:
“As someone born in Ecuador with friends and relatives in Latin America, I’m terrified watching how people in the United States are being manipulated just like people in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador to put a Marxist in power.”
“The similarities between Rafael Correa’s campaign for president of Ecuador and that of Obama for U.S. president are amazing. Correa had no experience but was young, charismatic and had good speaking skills. Correa’s slogans were the same as Obama’s: CHANGE, YES WE CAN, etc.”
“Informed Ecuadorians were not able to convince their clueless compatriots that Correa was a fake and not the young and wonderful savior the media was portraying. They could not compete in ads with the millions Correa had (mostly from unknown sources).”
“Once he took over, Correa dissolved Congress and took control of the legislative and judicial powers. In other words, he became a dictator. Ecuadorians are poorer than ever. The CHANGE has been toward Marxism and greater poverty for all.”
“It’s now obvious that Correa works for Chávez and terrorists AGAINST the United States.”
“Most informed Ecuadorians, when they realized the similarities between Correa and Obama, felt confident that Americans could not be fooled as Ecuadorians had. However, it seems many Americans are as clueless as the poorest and most ignorant people in Ecuador or Bolivia.”
“I hope it’s not too late and Americans realize that Obama is a Marxists with ties to Islamic terrorists, just like Castro, Chávez, Morales, Correa and Odinga.”
See: Texasdarlin blog
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/obama-and-odinga-new-video/#comments
You might want to Ping your full list.
If this doesn’t get cleared up, I am wondering what the use will be to vote or be a poll observer in Ohio. No matter what we see, hear, and document it will be worthless.
See also Boehner: End Tax-Payer Funding of ACORN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102688/posts
OK, can someone explain what is happening here? I thought the law in Ohio was you had to be registered to vote 30 days prior to election day. And the Sec. Of State said that the same day registration and voting using absentee ballots was legal because these votes were only being cast and would not be counted until election day thus adhering to the 30 day requirement.
But now we learn that absentee ballots will actually be counted prior to, less than 30 days, the election day!
Chicago stealing Ohio’s election ping
How true is that, I’m sick to my stomach.
She’s got dead eyes.
She DOES hsve dead eyes.
The 6th Circuit is overwhelmingly appointed by Reagan and Bush I & II. The odds of this having been a Carter or Clinton appointee are about 25%.
The more this issue is brought up, the more this favors us - it will bring out more people in greater numbers to our cause. This shouldn’t stop us from voting.
bump
I wonder how many Carter/Clinton appointees were involved with the ruling.
Is it legal to have a judge from a completely different circuit vote at all, but especially be the deciding vote? Were there no other genuine 6th Circuit judges to be found?
Who engineered this travesty of the "borrowed judge"? How long until that person or group of persons is rotting in prison? Hopefully along with the "borrowed judge".
The 6th is the most corrupt appeals court in the federal system. In the US v Rapanos case it deliberately ignored a directed SC order to the 6th and a previous ruling. This forced the USSC to take up the case and repair the damage done by these fascist traitors in black robes. They are much worse than the 9th.
Congress should have impeached these Marxists on the 6th. It had cause and proof that the 6th is an outlaw court.
Oh she's doing her job all right, just not the one from the state of Ohio.
She's definitely doing her job--the question is who is she working for on this "job".
Great societies don’t die of natural causes. They commit suicide.
“They should bring it to the full court”
Typically that’s the next step, to request an ‘en banc’ decision by all members of the appellate court, then on to SCOTUS. In fact, I think they have to go through every level before SCOTUS will even consider a petition, so they’ll probably have the en bacn request in first thing Monday morning as an emergency petition, while preparing the SCOTUS briefs to file Monday night or Tuesday.
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