Ohio Voters In Foreclosure Can Vote

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

POSTED: 6:14 am EDT September 25, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is reminding local elections boards that voters who have homes in foreclosure should not be prohibited from casting ballots for the Nov. 4 presidential election.

Brunner advised officials Wednesday that a voter's registration status cannot be challenged simply due to involvement in a foreclosure.

Brunner says returned mail that can't be forwarded is also insufficient for a challenge, and all challenged voters are entitled to a hearing.

Last week, Obama for America, the Democratic National Committee and several Michigan voters filed a federal lawsuit in Detroit seeing an injunction prohibiting Republican officials from challenging voters whose homes are on foreclosure lists.

Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/17553158/detail.html

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[apnu]

1. Good news!

Its stupid that if you don't have a home you can't have a vote. Home ownership is a requirement of citizenship?

[Igel]

4. Of course not. But nobody made that claim, did they?

You have to reside in a precinct to cast a ballot--your address and the address you registered at must indicate the same place.

If you've moved in the precinct, you cast a provisional ballot. Apparently some states have a provision whereby if you've moved out but clearly intend to move back to the precinct after a short time you can still vote there. I think I've also seen people who were in the same jurisdiction--so that all the candidates and measures were the same--also allowed to vote by affadavit/provisional ballot.

I'd note that I moved in October of one year, before I got my absentee ballot. It couldn't be forwarded, and it was too late for me to register where I moved to.

But this article isn't even clearly talking about people who moved. It's nicely ambiguous, and will be read differently by people depending upon what they want it to say--and for those, it will only have that possible reading, to be sure. The only unambiguous assertion--covered by both readings, and by all the usual legal bits concerning voter registration, is this: People whose houses are in foreclosure frequently haven't moved out yet. So there will be some who still have the same residence they registered for who could be challenged, were the repubs to challenge everybody on the foreclosure list.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Absolutely!

[Steelworker In OH]

3. About Time

It's nice they got this straightened out, although I'm sure the repug's will somehow try to challenge it. I seen this story in my local newspaper also. (Findlay Courier Http://www.thecourier.com ) So hopefully the word is spreading around quick and people who are having finacial issues will still go out to vote without fear of being turned away or their vote not counting.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OH_VOTING_FORECLOSURES_OHOL-?SITE=OHFIN&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

K&R

[EnviroBat]

5. Thanks Jennifer!

You are awesome! It's so nice to have a Democrat running our electoral system in this predominately back-assed state.

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[elocs]

6. You vote in the district or ward where you live.

Even if you are in foreclosure and still live in the house, that is your place of residence and that is where you should vote. If you have moved you vote in the district of where you now live.

[liberal N proud]

7. Jennifer Brunner is there to protect the people of Ohio

[FLyellowdog]

8. Finally someone using good sense.

[noel711]

9. This is most asinine crap foisted on prospective voters..

but, sadly, probably not the last attempt to
disenfranchise low-information voters...


Pathetic..