McCain Camp Sues Ohio Secretary of State---Whaaaa? Project much republicans?

[AlCzervik]

Debates about election integrity usually pit Democrats worried about access against Republicans worried about fraud. In Ohio, a flashpoint has partisans taking the opposite sides: Republicans accuse the Democratic secretary of state of trying to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters.
Today, lawyers for the McCain campaign sued the Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, allegeding that she's unlawfully rejecting absentee ballot requests. In Hamilton County, as many as a third of all requests were deemed invalid, sending the campaign scrambling to recontact voters.
Why?

Not because the forms lacked the requisite signatures and information. It's because the forms, printed by the McCain campaign, had something extra -- a box that asked voters to verify that " I am a qualified elector and would like to receive an Absentee Ballot for the November 4, 2008 General Election."

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/mccain_camp_sues_ohio_secretar.php

[d_b]

1. total projection

:rofl:

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. McCain should be prosecuted for vexatious litigiousness.

[Pab Sungenis]

3. They're not rejecting ALL McCain's fake applications,

only the ones where the applicants admit that they're not registered by not checking the box McCain added!

[loyalkydem]

4. Email

Keith Olberman this. Let's hope Keith runs with this story. I want to embarrass the McBush camp.

[Eric J in MN]

5. We need a federal law requiring each state to have ONE mailing address...

..for absentee ballot requests, and one official form for them.

Also, make it illegal to distribute an unofficial form fora an absentee ballot request.