More Friviolous GOP Lawsuits. You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Nick D — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:10:48 -0700

Today, the Ohio GOP sued the Secretary of State over two sentences in a 100+ page technical manual. They claim that the Secretary of State is not verifying voter registrations. What's crazy is, just two days before they sued, the Social Security Administration sent Ohio a letter asking why we were checking so many registrations.

Honestly, you can't make this shit up.

Secretary Brunner's response:

Due to an unfortunate word choice in a technical manual, partisans have filed a lawsuit without simply picking up the phone and asking us if their assumptions were true. This is just another frivolous partisan lawsuit based, this time, on bad grammar in a manual – and as far as I know, that's not a federal offense.

Here are the facts. Ohio's statewide voter registration database meets or exceeds state and federal standards. Every Ohio voter registration is processed and verified with a multilayer system that protects voter's rights and prevents voter fraud. That matching process with Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicle and Social Security Administration data has been on and working throughout this crucial election year. If a mismatch occurs, it is flagged in our statewide voter registration database so local boards can access the information in a secure, efficient manner.

We have faith in the bipartisan elections officials who have worked under the same time constraints for processing voter registrations for a very long time

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