(Community Matters) I’ve said for weeks now the election is Barack’s to lose or have stolen. And, I’m saying bullshit that this doesn’t represent deliberate attempts to suppress votes.
But for every voter added to the rolls in the past two months in some states, election officials have removed two, a review of the records shows.
On Monday, the Ohio Republican Party filed a motion in federal court against the secretary of state to get the list of all names that have been flagged by the Social Security database since Jan. 1 [which by law should be the database of last resort “because using the federal database is less reliable than the state lists, and is more likely to incorrectly flag applications as invalid”] . The motion seeks to require that any voter who does not clear up a discrepancy be required to vote using a provisional ballot.
Republicans said in the motion that it is central to American democracy that nonqualified voters be forbidden from voting.
The Ohio secretary of state, Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, said in court papers that she believes the Republicans are seeking grounds to challenge voters and get them removed from the rolls.
Considering that in the past year the state received nearly 290,000 nonmatches, such a plan could have significant impact at the polls.
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