Ohio Secretary Of State Acknowledges Loss Of Thousands Of Voter Registration Records

[flamingdem]

With the presidential election happening in just four days, the battleground state of Ohio is once again a major piece of the election puzzle. Already a hotbed for controversial moves and measures concerning the voting rights of its citizens, the “Buckeye State” finds itself on the map again after Republican Secretary of State, Jon Husted, acknowledged that a data glitch could have an effect on thousands of voters ahead of November 6, wrote the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

33,000 updated registration records were felled by a glitch triggered by “change-of-address” records and were resent by Husted’s office to local election officials. Voter rights advocates contend that thousands of absentee-ballot requests may have been incorrectly rejected in Ohio due to the software snafu between the secretary of state offices and the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The Columbus Dispatch reports that county election boards did not have current addresses for a number of registrants.

Initially, up to 100,000 notifications of changed addresses from the bureau’s website did not make their way to the secretary of state’s offices. In just a year’s time, motor vehicles have been sharing its records with Husted’s offices in order to keep a correct tally of registered voters. The glitch was immediately discovered, with the majority of the group able to be processed. The remaining 33,000 records are said to be undergoing process, and the state’s election board promises that there will be enough time to power through the erroneous data.

In related news, a recent ruling in Ohio is especially troubling; this after United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit judges stayed an order that may disenfranchise voters who were directed incorrectly by poll workers to vote in the wrong precincts this disallowing their ballots to be counted. The Bush-appointed panel of conservative judges ruled that it was the voters’ responsibility to know the correct precinct and puts too much of an onus on poll workers. An appeal must be legally heard but it is possible that with less than a week before Election Day, nothing will be done.

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[Dem2TheCore]

1. What kind of banana republic are they running up there in Ohio?

[Autumn]

4. A rethuglican republic. A banana republic would be an improvement.n/t

[bjobotts]

64. Notice it's always a republican SoS

Never a dem. Wonder why that is. Incompetence is always republican??... or something more sinister.

[Autumn]

68. Republicans are very competent at what they do. The 2000 election

and Citizens United prove that.

[Liberal1975]

40. The same

The same banana Republic where a candiate can win an election by squeaking 600 votes out of millions because his little bro purged voter rolls and his daddy's Supreme Court decided he was President just because...but hey it's not like 2000 led to any substansive changes in our country.

[vaberella]

59. The same like in Florida. Many states are on my shit list. n/t

[silvershadow]

75. I don't know, I hope it takes them all down...Husted, Kasich, and all of em.. nt

[northoftheborder]

2. This state's elections should be taken over by the Justice Dept. at once.

Husted is totally incompetent, if not criminal. i cannot believe all this is happening. This is the worst of the worst of election snafus.

[Squinch]

13. Absolutely. This is the same guy who made "software patches" to the voting machines and didn't

have them reviewed by anyone other than himself.

[dchill]

17. He is NOT incompetent...

at being a criminal.

[lastlib]

36. He's a criminally incompetent f*ckwad.

[NBachers]

30. That's right- just like the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation moves to take over failing banks,

the United States Justice Department needs to move in immediately to take over Ohio's failing election.

Let the screaming republicans shit their brains out their ass and flush 'em down the toilet.

[silvershadow]

46. Absolutely they should. At a minimum.

[bulloney]

49. If this doesn't result in Husted's resignation, then it's proof that the fix is in.

It shows that the governor and his administration condone what's happened.

I've seen public officials step down over lesser things than this.

A clean election free of even a whiff of corruption should be the basic benchmark to judge the SOS. This is the third straight presidential election in which Ohio was one of the states in which there were questions on whether the vote counting was conducted properly. And it's been under the Republicans' watch every time.

Husted must resign!

[TDale313]

3. This guy...

Needs to be in fuckin' jail. There better be investigations, however Ohio turns out Tues. Wow.

[teddy51]

5. Too bad there wasn't a way to take Ohio's electoral votes right out of the election

due to law breaking by the SS.

[Robeysays]

6. wtf for real?

this dude has to be doing it maliciously.

[Honeycombe8]

7. What is going to be done about this? Can the DNC file suit?

I hope the Dems have done research on what to do in an instance like this. It's not like fraud wasn't to be expected, esp in OH.

[Doctor_J]

27. File suit? 3 days before the election?

[Honeycombe8]

29. Yes. There are fast track papers you can file to order a state to do something....

OR you can file papers on the day of voting (like in 2000).

[Honeycombe8]

8. Yet another reason I don't trust absentee voting. I want to be there in person & punch those buttons

No "lost in the mail" or "accidentally rejected" for me. I'm there, with my registration card and driver's license. I AM VOTING, DAMMIT!

[lindysalsagal]

9. Ohio should be removed from the electoral count.

Since they obviously can't handle it.

[malaise]

10. i can't wait until they cart this criminal off to prison

Enough is enough!

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Republican dirty tricks have to be monitored..

I hope the President has boots on the ground there, an army of lawyers and law enforcement types who will investigate this..This better not be a pattern for more states during election day.

[marions ghost]

12. Ohio

What a mess.

[chuckstevens]

14. Oh Come ON!

Enough Already! Throw this Smug Little Fuck in jail!

[frylock]

15. states like OH and FL that continue to have issues every election should have their EV reduced..

start penalizing them by removing electoral votes as an incentive to elect secretaries of state that can do their damn job correctly.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

24. Tough to do

Nice as it sounds, it would require a Constitutional amendment...slim to none chance on that. No way 38 states would ever go along with such a law.

Better to start putting the state election officials in jail.

[lexw]

16. Their governor predicted Romney to win OH...

So I think these snafus originated above the Secretary of State.
Disgusting.

[rbrnmw]

18. OK I'm starting to see a pattern here

this is deliberate

[KathieG]

19. So basically, they don't even have to be sneaky about it...

they can just delete shit, or move it around and say "oops, it was a glitch"??? There needs to start being some accountability for all these "glitches".

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. "It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission"

an old old truism.

[alfredo]

20. They lack competence and a moral center. The thing is, they don't need to disenfranchise voters,

Obama probably doesn't not need Ohio to win 270. Why expose themselves to legal problems over a lost cause.


If you think Republicans can effectively govern, look at how they run elections in their states. If they can't make it work using a system that has been refined for many decades, then they can't govern.

[reflection]

21. It's like playing whack-a-mole with these Republican assholes

that try to steal elections. The remedy I think would stop this shit in its tracks would violate the TOS. Suffice to say the French made good use of it for a long time.

[AllyCat]

22. Damn these Rethuglicans! Why are they in charge of anything if they

can't follow the "rule of law" they love so much? There better be an investigation and prosecution with a REAL FIX OF THE PROBLEM or this country is completely at a loss.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

23. Husted is a threat to our democracy. eom

[ailsagirl]

25. So what happens now? Nightmare time--just like 2004.

[Doctor_J]

26. Dear Holder. Arrest, send to Federal pen. Have him keep a web log

of all the fun he's having in there. Deterrence.

[Hekate]

28. This is criminal

Ohio is being run by criminals, and I don't say that lightly.

[ananda]

31. Geez! He should have been removed by now!

..

[DallasNE]

32. "Poll Workers"

This doesn't say poll monitors or outside groups but poll workers -- people responsible for conducting free and fair elections.

[argiel1234]

33. AG Holder

Do you see this shit going on by this criminal Republican asshole in Ohio?!?

Stop with the marijuana prosecutions already and do your fucking job.

[99th_Monkey]

70. Amen !! nt

[Ilsa]

35. Do we have a forum for cross-posting these stories?

We need a reference page for this crap to pass on to the DOJ and media, not that I expect either one to do anything about election theft.

[Turborama]

55. Election Reform

But it's not exclusively for these stories: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1091

[elleng]

37. Studying the rules for Voter Protection work in Virginia,

Don't know Ohio rules, but Virginia requires that a voter who says s/he is registered MUST be provided a Provisional Ballot.

Assuming poll workers and watchers in OH are prepared to deal with this. Of course means delay, but that's been a 'given' in Ohio for some time.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

42. Yep

and my guess is that there will be tons of provisional ballots in Virginia this year, since the new voting law requires ID in order to vote. Lots of IDs are accepted, but if you don't have one with you, then you must vote a provisional ballot. Once that happens, the burden is on the voter to provide ID by the Friday following the election.

[elleng]

48. Studying Virginia rules. MANY forms of ID are acceptable,

and most don't require photo. Many likely to be in people's wallets, like concealed handgun permit (WISH I were joking about that,) motor vehicle registration and insurance card, medicare, medicaid, and social security card I'll be working on just the stuff you mention, informing of what's acceptable, and helping with timing.

[sabrina 1]

38. Every election Ohio has these 'accidents'. Time for someone to take over in that

state. It's clear that either they are the most incompetent or the most crooked (I'm going with the latter) state in the country, except maybe for Florida and not fit to run an election.

Something better be done about this now. Who has the authority to go there and fix this problem? Would arresting a few of them help?

[randome]

45. I would think it has to be local.

Maybe the judge who nixed the early voting restrictions in the first place? Maybe he could order this idiot arrested.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. Maybe all of this is just to make Romney's defeat less humiliating nationally....

He will still lose but they want to keep America thinking it's a close election to maintain the notion that it's a 50/50 country.

We've had election results in history like this:



Imagine that whole thing being blue except for Utah.

[flamingdem]

41. I'm still holding out hope for upsets

but I'll concede Utah goes to Willard!

[Overseas]

43. Republicans in Ohio have used dirty tricks since 2004 at least.

Here's a link to the Conyers Report. http://www.iwantmyvote.com/lib/downloads/references/house_judiciary/final_status_report.pdf


When are we going to get serious about the integrity of our elections?

[Curmudgeoness]

44. Every time I see an article like this

my first question is: how many Democrats were affected, and how many Republicans? Was it equal? Was it all one party?

Disgusted with the problems we are having in this country with voting. We may just have to scrap voter registration and have everyone who votes dip their thumbs in ink. You would think that we were just trying to figure out voting. I never thought that I would see the USA as a country where elections are rigged. That happens in other countries.

[Mr. Sparkle]

47. The Feds need to step in and take control.

[David Zephyr]

50. K&R. Thanks flamindem. Jon Husted caused this to happen.

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Husted created the environment to suppress votes and this was no "glitch".

Husted is responsible. The buck stops there. He owns this.

[flamingdem]

54. I like the idea of the DOJ descending upon him

like vultures and picking him clean! Somehow I don't think they'll get away with it this time.

[mikki35]

61. Husted is not the Governor

The governor is Kasich - who is, arguably, MUCH worse than Husted.

[The Doctor.]

51. There was no 'glitch'.

They keep using the excuse that they're incompetent, don't believe it.

[Segami]

52. WTF!

[flamingdem]

53. I liked your post better!

Actually the idea that 800 lawyers are being dispatched helped me think that OFA and DOJ has planned well for dirty tricks, fingers crossed

[Kurovski]

56. K&R. (nt)

[BainsBane]

57. Let me guess: they just happened to be Dem. registrations

Completely coincidentally of course.

[DCKit]

58. Jeebus, even Microsoft software is more reliable than that. nt

[WillyT]

60. HUGE K & R !!!

[CrispyQ]

62. What will this president do if they steal his presidency?

Concede like Kerry? Someone said Prez O's got 2500 lawyers on the ground in OH. Will he use them?

I don't know if I can vote again if they steal another election & nothing is done about it.

[DirtyDawg]

63. If somehow...

...Ohio should, indeed, be 'flipped' into Romney's column, and should 'objective' investigations find that it was due in large part to this cretin's vile, illegal, acts, then he should be strung up by his scrotum till the buzzards pick his effin bones clean. Maybe then, even though it'll be too late for this time, these bastards will understand that there are consequences for their behavior beyond losing an election.

[azureblue]

65. Question

What happens if it turns out there is massive election fraud in Ohio, like this example? Would Ohio's election be ruled invalid? Would Ohio have to re-vote? Would the state's electoral votes be thrown out?

[Mkap]

66. Impeach him

The Secretary of Suppression Jon Husted is doing everything he can to stop voting here in Ohio. First he tried to end early voting even though we been doing it since 2006....he doesn't want to "confuse" voters. He fired two democratic board directors cause they didn't approve his plan to allow republican counties to extend their voting hours but lower the hours of democratic counties. The courts ruled against him. Then came that joke of a attempt to stop early voters by claiming that only military people should be allowed to vote three days before election. Seems to be a direct violation of the equal protection clause of the constitution, but Jon pushed it anyways and again lost in the courts. Now just recently he mailed new registration forms late....forcing the boards to scramble to get all voters on the poll and he just ordered a "new software patch" to be installed on several voting machines. Ohhh and Tagg Romney just happens to be a minority owner in the voting machine company.

I believe that my fellow ohioan's need to called for the resignation or impeachment of Jon Husted!

[triplepoint]

67. Count Ohio Popular Vote as STOLEN

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Hopefully, the Electoral Vote Won't Be As Well. Not sure about this possibility...


It's deja vu all over again. Why is this guy STILL EVEN breathing? This is why I'll NEVER visit, live nor work in Ohio. Count me out for ALL the red states! They ALL suck. I live my life by the Electoral Map. It's worked for me thus far, and I pragmatically believe it'll continue to do so until my last breath.

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[flamingdem]

73. I agree, living in a Red State would be stifling at best

though FL and NC sound bearable

[99th_Monkey]

69. What is wrong with Ohio voters? Why do they keep electing crooks to run their elections???

Oh, that's right. The crooks stole those elections too, to get into office
in the first place. Just maybe?

[ailsagirl]

83. It's absolutely astonishing to me that these BS shenanigans are STILL going on!!

It's BROKEN-- why can't it be FIXED??

[Rex]

71. It is sad watching Repuke politicians try all they can

to fight against Democracy and freedom of choice. Why are they in this country again, I forget?

[Sparkly]

72. And are there any answers yet about the "software patches?"

[flamingdem]

82. Only know that they're trying to get an injunction

and that it has been discussed on CNN and MSNBC so it's known about thankfully

[donnasgirl]

74. It's time

For Eric Holder and his staff to earn their pay.

[FreedomFighter98201]

76. What a Surprise!

The groundwork is in place for the upcoming war of the attorneys

[UCmeNdc]

77. How can these GOP secretary of state get away with this?

This is complete incompetent activity. No punishment?

[MynameisBlarney]

78. Software glitch?

What a crock!

[Dan de Lyons]

79. Will Big Brother Be Watching The Crime?

Unfortunately, a crime has to be committed before a perp can be brought to justice. Since our national security apparatus now appears to have the ability to screen vast amounts of phone calls and emails, one would think that a massive set of court cases could result from evidence that they've already accumulated, not to mention the info storm from what's about to happen.

Those who watch us as they watch over us look anywhere there's interest. Interfering with a presidential election is undoubtedly of interest. And the many intelligence organs of our government have marvelous powers to look, these days. And to remember.

This Ohio Secretary of State seems blind to his visibility.

If a crime occurs, they will know where to look.

[Historic NY]

80. Where are the FEDs' ..

this guy need to be impeached.

[David Zephyr]

81. Jon Husted belongs in prison.

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