Joe the Plumber wouldn't be able to vote in Ohio GOP push for info mis-match

[sohndrsmith]

From the Toledo Blade, October 16, 2008
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081016/NEWS09/810160418

(excerpt):
Questions were raised Thursday morning whether Mr. Wurzelbacher is a registered voter.

Linda Howe, executive director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, said a Samuel Joseph Worzelbacher, whose address and age match Joe the Plumber’s, registered in Lucas County on Sept. 10, 1992. He voted in his first primary on March 4 of this year, registering as a Republican.

Ms. Howe said that the name may be misspelled in the database.

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From From the Toledo Blade, October 16, 2008
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081016/NEWS09/810160378

(excerpt):
Ms. Brunner, a Democrat, said yesterday she is concerned the court decision is a veiled attempt at disenfranchising voters. Ms. Brunner said she'll urge counties not to force these people to use provisional ballots.

Ms. Brunner has said that new-voter registrations were being cross-checked with databases run by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicle and the Social Security Administration, and that was all that the federal Help Americans Vote Act required her to do.

The 6th Circuit took her to task for that interpretation of the law, saying it required her to help county election boards ferret out mismatches, rather than leave it to local boards to go through Ms. Brunner's list of mismatches.

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(italics are my emphasis)

So prior voter registrations are valid when they contain "mis-matched" information, but new registrations may not be counted?

Hm.....

[beac]

1. This is a GREAT opening to discuss this issue and why it's SO wrong!

Thanks McSelfFootShooter for giving us this ammo!

[beac]

2. Oh, and K&R too!!! n/t

[sohndrsmith]

3. Thanks! Right after I posted this, another one came up

with a * much * better title than mine, and by someone with a lot more posts under their belt (this was my first one -grin- ).
But I'm actually glad, because I think this is a story worth getting out, because it really does make a point about the fairness of this push by the GOP to try to disqualify new voters (because new voters are likely very much pro Obama, I'm guessing). It's hypocritical that they're so blase about the exact same discrepancy in a Republican who voted for the first time this year.... that is the point I'd like to see challenged.

I'm just glad this is getting discussed...

Thank you for the Rec!