This morning a judge ruled that the Ohio Secretary of State was not in compliance with the law regarding removal of suspect voter registrations from the state’s central database. There was more, but the gist of it is that there is no way to detect and remove fraudulent voter registrations.
Be that as it may, I’m far more concerned about something I learned some weeks ago. In Ohio, it is possible to register to vote and obtain an early voting ballot at the same time. So, if someone fraudulently registers to vote, the damage will already be done — the ballot already issued, the vote already cast —before November 4. So, even if the registration proves to be fraudulent and would have been detected at the polling place, the vote is already cast, the damage done.
That this provision of law even exists is an affront to common sense. It is just asking for fraud. What were Ohio legislators thinking when they passed this into law?!?
If the presidential vote in Ohio is close, the winner may well be determined by fraudulent votes.