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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93R8IE00&show_article=1

About 200K Ohio voters have records discrepancies  
 
Oct 15 08:18 PM US/Eastern
By TERRY KINNEY
Associated Press Writer 

CINCINNATI (AP) - Close to 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. 
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner estimated 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. 

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati sided with the Ohio 
Republican Party on Tuesday and ordered Brunner to set up a system that 
provides those names to county elections boards. The GOP contends the 
information will help prevent fraud. 

"Things already are in motion to comply," Kidder said.
"We're working to 
establish these processes on how we can make this work. The computer 
work actually began last week." 

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

Brunner previously cross-checked new-voter registrations with databases 
run by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicle and the Social Security 
Administration and made the results available online, but the 6th 
Circuit said the information was not accessible in a way that would help 
county election boards ferret out mismatches. 

Brunner, a Democrat, told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer on Wednesday that 
she is concerned the court decision is a veiled attempt at 
disenfranchising voters. Brunner said she'll urge counties not to force 
these people to use provisional ballots. 

The court gave Brunner until Friday to get election boards the 
information but it was unclear whether that deadline would be met. The 
court set no penalty for missing the deadline. 

County election officials were trying to determine Wednesday how they 
will respond once they get the information. 

"I'm very concerned with these new requirements as we get closer to 
Election Day," said Steve Harsman, director of the Montgomery County 
Board of Elections in Dayton. He said his staff already is working 16 
hours a day, seven days a week. 

"It's clearly going to have an impact in regard to resources we have to 
expend to resolve discrepancies," said Jeff Hastings, chairman of the 
Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland. 

"We've had about 100,000 (registrations) since January and of those 
about 34,000 since the primary. We will do whatever is required of us." 

Also Wednesday, the Ohio Republican Party said it has filed public 
records requests with all 88 counties for copies of forms submitted by 
newly registered voters, especially those who registered and cast an 
absentee ballot on the same day during a one-week window earlier this 
month. 

Brunner has said that 13,141 Ohioans registered and voted immediately 
during the window. 

"We've seen reports of fraudulent registrations, and we want to see 
those forms first-hand," said Jason Mauk, the state GOP's executive 
director. 

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