Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio

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Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio

How many voter-registration mass mailers are "returned to sender" in the run-up to Election Day may determine how many Ohio residents are eligible to vote.

By: David Rosenfeld | September 05, 2008 | 05:00 AM (PDT)


Ohio election officials are sending out a mass mailer stamped “do not forward” to all registered voters today (Sept. 5) with an absentee ballot application and other important notices for Nov. 4.

What’s important here is not so much what’s going out as what’s being returned to sender.

Unbeknownst to the would-be recipients, the same mailer — just 60 days before the election — has the potential to determine their eligibility to vote, challenged not by election officials but by partisan opposition.

A similar mailer in March netted nondeliverable mail from almost 600,000 registered voters in just five Ohio counties who could now have their ballots thrown out for voting under the wrong address.

more at:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/662

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. So is the Dem Party pointing this out to Ohio voters?

Seems to me that 600,000 people would be easy to contact and inform to double check on there voting status.
I am not in favor of this caging technique... but let's solve the problem.

Five Ohio counties need to get organized!

[stillcool]

2. All voters should

check their registrations before election day. Pass it on.

[eShirl]

it should be announced in all the local news

[global1]

4. Seens To Me It's Worth A Couple Of Campaign Commercials By The Dems.....

or the Obama campaign or just simply public service announcements about voting registration and making sure you are elgible.

[Warpy]

3. This is illegal and will send them to jail

should we manage, against all odds, to get a Democrat into office and get a Democratic DOJ.

[Botany]

5. Sec. State Jennifer Brunner will not allow this to happen

I am proud to call her my friend and asked her about this matter this what she sent me back.

Hi xxx,

Hope you are well. Of course I remember you. We just issued a directive yesterday that is designed to combat the harmful effects of the legislation (which, by the way, sunsets at the end of this year), that requires the nonforwardable mailing of the 60-day notice. The directive prohibits the cancellation of voter registrations on the sole basis of a returned 60-day notice and requires a hearing to be held before the election. I will be asking the legislature to make changes to this law. Here’s the directive, though. Take care.

Jennifer

she also included a PDF file of her rules to all BOEs .... There is a new sheriff in town and her name is Jenny.