Comments on Pho's Akron Pages: Brunner v. GOP, Absentee Ballot Edition

Brunner has been overruled:http://www.sconet.state...

2008-10-02T17:52:00.000-04:00

Brunner has been overruled:
http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/docs/pdf/0/2008/2008-ohio-5097.pdf

If I were the McCain campaign, I'd be feverishly s...

2008-09-14T16:51:00.000-04:00

If I were the McCain campaign, I'd be feverishly spending more of my efforts on circulating the SoS absentee ballot request forms, and thanking the SoS for having counties notify potential voters that they need to resubmit their requests that were submitted incorrectly. While there are issues that I'm in disagreement with Brunner on, I don't suggest that candidates buck the system. Bucking the system is a hazard I, if I were the candidate, wouldn't want to risk. Brunner is the system, so just follow it, and, like I said, thank Brunner for at least directing the counties to notify those whose submissions were incorrect and inviting them to resubmit their absentee ballot request in the correct fashion.

Neither. Ohio elections law requires that an earl...

2008-09-14T10:48:00.000-04:00

Neither. Ohio elections law requires that an early voter must state that he or she is a qualified elector. There is no wiggle room there. The legislature decided that, with absent voter's ballot requests, the presumption is that a person is NOT a qualified elector unless the applicant says otherwise. Since McCain included a check box by the statement, the voter must do something to affirm the statement.

Mail can be returned for any reason -- a typo at the board, a mistake at the post office, a soldier on active duty with his/her mail forwarded. Here, Ohio law presumes a person is an eligible voter unless or until a challenger proves otherwise with clear and convincing evidence.

SO the question is, which is better evidence that ...

2008-09-13T15:19:00.000-04:00

SO the question is, which is better evidence that a person may not be eligible to vote: 1) their failing to check the box next to "I am a qualified elector," or 2) mail addressed to them from the county board of elections being returned?