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Officials: Early voting, registration goes well
Thursday, October 09, 2008
The six-day period when voters could register and vote simultaneously went smoothly throughout Ohio and in the Dayton area, elections officials said.
In-person registration and early voting raised concerns it could increase opportunities for fraud, but officials said they have no indication that occurred.
Ohio Republicans failed in court challenges to stop the simultaneous registration and voting from Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, the final day to register before Nov. 4. The six-day window was included in the no-fault absentee voting law passed by the Republican-controlled Ohio Legislature and has been in place since 2006.
Local board officials said there were fewer than expected choosing to register and vote at the same time.
Statewide figures for the six days were unavailable, but Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said Ohio's voter registration roles grew by 665,949 this year to a total of nearly 8.2 million.
Local officials said ballots cast by same-day registrants will be segregated until boards confirm identifications and addresses.
If mailed acknowledgement cards are returned as undeliverable, the board will investigate, said Steve Harsman, director of the Montgomery County Board of Elections.
One issue critics raised was that the same-day registration could lead to partisans driving the homeless to elections boards to fraudulently vote.
Harsman said the homeless have the right to vote, even if they have no home. They can use a shelter address, the board's address or even a park bench where they sleep, he said.
Early voting numbers by county
Ballots cast Sept. 30 through Oct. 6:
Montgomery County: 3,160 votes; 446 same-day registration.
Greene County: 1,212 votes; 304 same-day registration.
Warren County: 1,031 votes; 203 same-day registration.
Miami County: 694 votes; 6 same-day registration.
Comments
By Capt. Capitalism
October 9, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
Round up all the paranoid manaiacs like banjer who believe our country will become a socialist state and throw them in the nearest nut house.
By CONNIE
October 9, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Remember middle class when he says he won’t raise taxes on middle class it because he will not keep the tax cut that bush gave middle class alive. and remember 45% of the people who will be getting tax cuts don’t pay taxes instead they will get a big fact check from the gov’t and people who do work and pay taxes won’t get crap. Obama has stated that he will make sure there are no more poor black people and plans on releasing alot of black men out of prison so that can be with all their babies.
By Madge Helms
October 9, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
We in Ohio gave the presidency to Bush twice. We need to redeem ourselves for the horrible plague we unleased on our fellow Americans. I’m not pointing fingers, I voted for him in 2000.
By ACORN
October 9, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
All, everything is going according to plan in Ohio and other states. we are doing our part to make sure Obama will be elcted our next president. CLEVELAND - Two Ohio voters, including Domino’s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they’d already signed up. Barkley estimated he’d registered to vote “10 to 15” times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others
By banjer
October 9, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this
Round up all the ones that never pay a penny tax to vote for a socialist that will raise my taxes to support their sorry lifestyle. Yea, this is a great system.