These provisionals now need to be accounted for and a determination if these voters are real or memorex. How many of these votes represent people with address that are park benches or YMCA's.
Republican's have a tendency to call enforcing the law "sour grapes" but to those who would break it.. it is called justice.
Brunner added 200,000+ voters to the roles that were identified as problems and then banned any attempt to use the States systems to cross reference these people's identities.
This could be done because the Democrat Attorney General has no interest in actually enforcing this law and thus no one else had "Standing" to do this.
The Ohio Republican party didn't use the horrific scandal that brought down the previous Attorney General to take back this critical office and thus, we are saddled with another Democrat Attorney General.
Ohio Officials who commit serious offenses or defy the will of the People cannot be recalled by election. This leaves Impeachment. Impeachment by the Ohio Legislature requires an impossibly high threshold so that only the previous Attorney General caught in several egregious and blatant sexual harrassment and malfeasance situations simultaneously were enough to get the legislature to start moving.
Alternatively, in Ohio, we can impeach by petition of the electorate. Odd.. but number of signatures is achievable, less than 700,000. In this situation, the charges stated in the petition are tried in the State's courts rather than the Legislature where rules of evidence matter and a conviction is not a political statement.
Nevertheless, I don't know if this procedure has ever actually been used, or what it takes to get a conviction and remove the office holder.
There are some who say Brunner will lose anyway in 2010, but they are not taking in account that She will be in control of that election too.
Great post. All true.