Friday, October 17, 2008

Supreme court accidentally enfranchises voters

High court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute
The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter registration forms don't match records in other government databases.

Ohio Republicans contended the information for counties would help prevent fraud. Brunner said the GOP is trying to disenfranchise voters.
Wait a minute, the US Supreme Court? The one that thought counting votes wasn't important in 2000(and mandated that it's decision never be referenced for any legal precedent in the future) and has since only gotten more conservative? They do know this means black people are going to get to vote, right? That the Republican party won't get to throw 200,000 people off the rolls for spelling errors, moving residences, or registering as a Democrat, right?

The poor are going to vote! Minorities! There might be repercussions for the last 8 years! WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?

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