Honest Voting

The law of unintended consequences (at least I hope they were unintended): Voting officials in Ohio, a voter-ID state, are concerned about the effect of the national wave of foreclosures upon the voting rolls. Voters who recently lost their homes may, understandably, not be making voter registration their first priority.

Ohio’s foreclosed voters may matter more than others, since Ohio is as a crucial state for the November 2008 elections as it was in 2004. As the CBS News article notes:

“In 2004, the Ohio Republican Party challenged more than 31,000 newly registered voters statewide after letters it mailed out came back as undeliverable. The challenges failed, but Brunner said a new state law requiring counties to mail their own notices to all registered voters could lead to another round of pre-election challenges.”

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