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October 29, 2004
| Appeals court: GOP can't challenge voters

From the Cincinnati Enquirer:

A federal appeals court today upheld a court order barring Ohio’s Republican Party from challenging the validity of 23,000 new voter registrations.

The state GOP contends the registrations may be fraudulent because many of the new voters appear to have invalid addresses. Democrats say the pre-election challenges are unfair and are intended to discourage voters from going to the polls Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott blocked the challenges Wednesday, but the GOP appealed to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

A three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit ruled this morning that Dlott’s order should stand.

The judges said they appreciated the concern about potential voter fraud, but they believed there was not adequate time before the election to hold fair hearings to determine the validity of the registrations.



Posted by Todd Castleton at October 29, 2004 11:49 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Dunno how I feel about this. It’s nice that the judges recognize they can’t make a fair decision in only 4 days, but have they shown any intent to review the issue after the elections? You know, for the next election?

At first, I didn’t care about the registrations, because I thought, “Registrations don’t matter, votes matter.” But after hearing about the Floridian-New Yorkers, I’m concerned about someone making up an address just so they can appear to live in a hotly contested precinct. Which doesn’t affect the presidency so much, but local elections are important too.

Posted by: TBox [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 29, 2004 04:44 PM

..all this does..Tuesday there will be more lawers in polling places..can you say..FLORIDA…

Posted by: Rob_NC [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 29, 2004 10:37 PM

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