2008 Election

Obstacle for the GOP’s Voter Suppression Crusade in Ohio

I tweeted about this yesterday, but TPM has a good story from David Kurtz about it here:

“As we’ve been reporting this week, the GOP brought the lawsuit as part of its strategic effort to disqualify voters in swing states. Once the mismatches are identified, the process of trying to disqualifyvoters can begin. By one estimate, one-third of the voters who registered this year in Ohio might have such mismatches, some 200,000 voters. Mismatches include things like … typos. …

Now, I’ll be curious to see where the GOP goes from here. There’s not enough time to pursue this case on the merits before the election. So as a practical matter it may kill the case in Ohio entirely. But perhaps more importantly, it puts a stop to the GOP or any other private party gumming up the works over the next 18 days by filing similar cases in courts across the country.”

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One comment for “Obstacle for the GOP’s Voter Suppression Crusade in Ohio”

  1. Seems a bit hypocritical of the GOP to jump on the wagon as the election police in Ohio, doesn’t it?

    Posted by JCrawler14 | October 19, 2008, 8:59 pm

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