One Choice: Obama

     What is it about the GOP and Ohio voters? Remember 2004’s presidential election and the Diebold debacle?
     The latest volley was when the GOP convinced a federal appeals court that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must come up with a way to provide a list of new registered voters’ names that do not match government databases. Had she been pressed to do so, by today, it would have meant that 200,000 voters would have to fill out provisional ballots that would be counted only if there were a discrepancy. Most of those newly registered voters are, what a shocker!, Democrats. So in a state where there is a groundswell of support for Obama, this could tilt a close result in favor of McCain. The result would be to disenfranchise 200,000 voters. Sounds like a tactic you’d find in a banana republic, not the proud US of A.
     Today the Supreme Court ruled that “they were granting Brunner’s request because it appears that the law does not allow private entities, like the Ohio GOP, to file suit to enforce the provision of the law at issue.” It was an unsigned ruling that avoided tangling with the Help America Vote Act.
     Yay for Ohio’s voters!