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News Source: The Columbus Dispatch
| about 1 year ago
Ohio's voter identification law will be in effect on Election Day. Advocates for the homeless have dropped a federal lawsuit that challenged the law, which requires voters to show either a government-issued ID, such as a driver's license, or some...
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News Source: The Columbus Dispatch
| about 1 year ago
Ohio's election is so broken that President Bush should tell the Justice Department to intervene, a congressional leader says. Congress will remain on voter roles during the Nov. 4, 2008, election; and there is a significant risk, if not a certainty,...
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News Source: CNSNews.com
| about 1 year ago
House Republicans want the Bush administration to investigate the failure of several states, including Ohio, to fully comply with Section 303 of the federal Help America Vote Act. “I respectfully request that you use your authority to direct...
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News Source: The Columbus Dispatch
| about 1 year ago
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien has decided not to press charges against 13 out-of-state residents who registered to vote in Ohio, and they agreed to cancel their registrations and have any ballots already cast discarded. The 13 all lived in a...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
Some of the clowns have changed, but Ohio has hosted this circus before. In 2004, the critical swing state held a presidential election only a lawyer could love. In the weeks before voting day, Democrats and Republicans paraded to court to launch...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate John McCain lost his lead in rural American voters as more of them favored his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, in handling the country's economic crisis, said a poll released on Thursday. According to the...
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News Source: Alternet
| about 1 year ago
Republican Party efforts to stop thousands of voters from casting meaningful ballots in 2008 because their registration information does not match government databases with high error rates was set back by legal rulings in Wisconsin, Ohio and Nevada...
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News Source: The Columbus Dispatch
| about 1 year ago
Elections officials cannot challenge voters on Election Day or reject absentee ballots based solely on discrepancies from verifying new voter registrations, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said yesterday in directives to counties. It's the latest...
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News Source: The Columbus Dispatch
| about 1 year ago
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien is telling the presidential campaigns in Ohio that if their out-of-state staff members are just passing through for the Nov. 4 election with no plans to remain, they shouldn't vote in the state, either. O'Brien...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told CNN that "fortunately" no sensitive material was breached in the incident. "We found it in time that we were able to mitigate any problems," she said. However, Brunner said it wasn't the first time her office,...