oh really?? I cant believe this is legal.

A federal court has now ruled that the election commish in ohio(a democrat) has to review the registrations and confirm them before the elections in Ohio take place.
They also have to use verifiable identification. Finally a Federal court with common sense!!!

The quote above was made in jest followed by the quote below

Finally, 666000 newly registered voters may have their votes suppressed. Republicans may steal this yet!

According to the Associated Press, around one in every three newly registered Ohio voters will end up on court-ordered lists being sent to county election boards because they have some discrepancy in their records, an elections spokesman said Wednesday.

Brunner said that an initial review found that about 200,000 newly registered voters reported information that did not match motor-vehicle or Social Security records, Brunner spokesman Kevin Kidder said.

Some discrepancies could be as simple as a misspelling, while others could be more significant. Brunner said she'll urge counties not to force these people to use provisional ballots.

About 666,000 Ohioans have registered to vote since January.

http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=37630

This is one loooong election year. I cant wait for it to be over.

Oh and Thanks for the Laugh Earl.

Acorn is losing their fed backed dollars and this could not happen to a better group! Talk about a waste of taxpayer money!

Come on Chuck...I guess you have not noticed that it has been DEMOCRATS who have went after ACORN...look at the states involved and the Democrats with the balls to go after them...except Ohio where the Dem in charge is still trying to get 200,000 registrations to pass muster...lol

Fact Check: GOP vitriol rages over community group
By DEBORAH HASTINGS – 13 hours ago

Republican John McCain took his criticism of community activist group ACORN to new heights, claiming in the final presidential debate that the organization "is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."

He kept up the attack on Thursday, saying ACORN is being investigated for voter fraud "in every single battleground state" and demanding that Democrat Barack Obama detail his ties to the group.

McCain is correct that at least a handful of ACORN canvassers are currently being investigated across the country by local officials on suspicion of submitting false registration cards, some with names like "Mickey Mouse" or "Donald Duck."

But in alleging voter fraud, McCain goes too far. To commit fraud, a person would have to show up on Election Day with identification bearing the fake name.

The group, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, recently completed a massive registration drive in poor and working-class neighborhoods — which tend to vote Democratic — across 21 states, signing up 1.3 million new voters. Bogus registration cards filled out in the names of cartoon characters and the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys have been targeted for investigation in about 12 states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri, Nevada and South Carolina.

ACORN, which advocates for the underprivileged, has said for days that it was its own quality-control workers who first noticed problem registration cards, flagged them and submitted them to local election officials in every state that is now investigating them.

ACORN hires canvassers from disadvantaged communities, pays them $8 an hour and provides them with a day of training, according to the group's spokesman, Brian Kettenring. He said those who forged registration cards were lazy employees trying to earn money for doing no work, and were fired.

Many states require that every collected registration card be submitted to election officials so that bogus cards or those with incomplete information are vetted by voting professionals, not the groups that collect them.

On Thursday, a senior law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the FBI is investigating whether the organization helped foster voter registration fraud.

The law enforcement official said the agency was looking at results of local inquiries in several states, including a raid on ACORN's office in Las Vegas, for any evidence of a coordinated national effort — something Republicans have been clamoring for in the past few days. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because Justice Department regulations forbid discussing ongoing investigations, particularly so close to an election.

An ACORN spokesman said the group has not been notified that it is being investigated.

McCain, in Wednesday night's debate, also sought to tie Obama to ACORN, saying he gave $832,000 to an ACORN "front outfit organization."

During this year's primary Obama's campaign hired a firm with ties to ACORN, for a get-out-the-vote effort. During Wednesday's debate, Obama said ACORN's latest registration drive "had nothing to do with us. We were not involved."

In addition, Obama and other lawyers in 1995 successfully represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois to gain implementation of the so-called "motor-voter" law, which made voter registration easier.