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...While this action satisfied NEOCH, Ohio Republicans want Brunner to go even further. Their complaint alleges that Brunner's directive remains ambiguous without enough details on how to match signatures on provisional ballots with voter information on file...
Ohio Republicans Launch Another Voter-Fraud Challenge, 2:30 p.m. E.T. The Ohio Republican Party (ORP) this morning added another chapter to the ongoing legal saga here over its fears of voter fraud. The ORP's latest complaint against Ohio secretary of state Jennifer Brunner, filed in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio, alleges that the rules governing provisional ballots are so vague that each of Ohio's 88 counties could end up treating those votes differently - and be subject to violations of numerous federal equal-protection and election laws...
...Oddly, this amended complaint puts the ORP in the same boat as the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH), a left-leaning advocacy group that in 2006 made similar claims about provisional ballots against the secretary of state. Ten days ago, Brunner settled the case with NEOCH by issuing directives on when and how to count provisional ballots...
...early voters and absentee ballots. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has recruited 300 volunteer lawyers in the state to be ready at polling places in case voters are challenged Election Day. The campaign has also set up a central call-in center in case someone needs to make a complaint or seek guidance. Polls open 8 a.m. Mountain Standard Time and close twelve hours later. By Pat Dawson / Billings...
...This year, some voter-advocacy groups are predicting extremely long lines at certain precincts in Virginia, Ohio and Florida - and the lawsuits have already begun. In Virginia, "the allocation of polling-place resources is plainly irrational, nonuniform and likely discriminatory," charges a complaint filed on Oct. 27 against the state by the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP. Virginia governor Tim Kaine disputes this charge and promises an orderly election, noting that the state has a short ballot this year, along with 4,700 more voting machines and 11,000 more poll workers than...