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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...
...ORP first raised the specter of voter fraud several weeks ago, when it argued against a novel "golden week" - a five-day period in early October during which new voters could go to boards of election to both register and vote at the same time. The ORP argued that simultaneous registration and voting didn't allow election officials to verify voters' identities. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Ohio secretary of state...
...More recently, the ORP took issue with the secretary of state's voter database matching process. All mismatches should be compiled into a concise report and sent to county boards of election, the ORP said. This was presumably so the ORP could use such data for challenges later on. The U.S. Supreme Court denied the ORP's claims on technical grounds, saying that the ORP had no standing to bring such a lawsuit and that the Ohio secretary of state lacked the technology to produce such reports. - By Charu Gupta / Cleveland...
...friend of Julius Rosenberg, accused of being a top spy in the atom ring (TIME, July 31). Engineer Sobell worked on top-secret U.S. radar and electronic devices for the Navy from 1942 to 1947, was working on more top-secret Government devices at Manhattan's Reeves Instrument Orp. until his sudden trip south. He was described by a fellow employee at Reeves as "the genius type," a man who could carry plenty of complex data in his head. Sobell was the eighth U.S. citizen arrested on spy charges since British Physicist Klaus Fuchs began spilling what he knew...