This is exactly why we can't get good govt. When you have partisan judges & partisan people making these decisions you kust won't get fair & balnced. However, the more serious situation are from DEMS who keep pushing the envelop when it comes to fair & balanced...left is not the norm. I hope this fraud goews to the supreme court. It's scarey that DEMS want to pass of their partisan ways as the norm.

We have alot more to worry about in placing activist judges on the bench if libs choose judges in the next four years. There's more to worry about than abortion rights...(which, BTW, is not a right).

Appeals Court Sides With Ohio Secretary of State
Court sets aside federal judge's order that Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information.


CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court sided with Ohio's top elections official Friday in her running battle with Republicans over how to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a federal judge's order a day earlier that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information and make it available to Ohio's 88 county election boards.

Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and that nothing in the Help America Vote Act required her to do what the lower court ordered. A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed in a split decision.

"With less than a month until the election, and less than two weeks until the beginning of counting absentee ballots, the secretary cannot be required to undertake the extensive reprogramming and other changes to the election mechanics without complete disruption of the electoral process in Ohio," the majority said in its opinion. "The irreparable harm to the voting public caused by the district court's order is equally clear."

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith in Columbus ordered Brunner to verify new registrations by matching information on them against a database maintained by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration. He also ordered her to establish a process by which the county boards can access the information generated by the checks.

Brunner praised Friday's decision, saying there are sufficient systems in place to verify new-voter registration.

"The ... Court of Appeals has halted another partisan lawsuit in Ohio," she said. "Under the Help America Vote Act, this verification process is not and has not been permitted to be used to determine a voter's eligibility."

The orders stemmed from a lawsuit the Ohio Republican Party filed against Brunner, whom Chairman Bob Bennett called "the most partisan secretary of state in Ohio history."

"It's a shame we don't have transparency in this election. She has done everything she can to help her candidate," Bennett said. "To not even check the registrations is a travesty of the first class."

Bennett said the party's lawyers would determine its next step, including whether to appeal. A message seeking comment was left late Friday at the office of Bill Todd, a lawyer for the party.



http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/11/appeals-court-sides-ohio-secretary-state/

ohio is a key swing state in this election.

unfortunately, ACORN has it all sewn up....or should i say bought up.....for obama.

the democratic SOS, ms brunner, has nothing to worry about.

These last minute suits are just ways to muddle the process and create headlines.

So three weeks before an election you want to insert an untested program into the Ohio voting machines? Spiffy!

If Ohio is in the bag this year for the dems just consider it turnabout being fair play since the vote there was badly manipulated last time by the reps.

As for the courts...I suggest a few of you turn off FOX and read. Maybe a basic government text would be a good start.

wow...I just noticed "fair & balnced" appears twice in the same paragraph. Oh no...I take that back it's "fair & balnced" and "fair & balanced"