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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Historic Settlement Reached with Ohio in Lawsuit over Clean Voter Rolls
Judicial Watch recently announced that it reached a settlement in an August
30, 2012 lawsuit against the state of Ohio, which resulted in an agreement
with Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to take or continue to take a series
of actions to further ensure that the state is in compliance with the
National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
It may have taken our actions to bring these issues into focus, but in the
end, election officials in the State of Ohio made the decision to do the
right thing for citizens of the state and for election integrity.
This is an historic settlement, the first of its kind in the history of the
National Voter Registration Act. As JW has stated time and time again in
letters to election officials and in court filings across the country, dirty
election rolls can lead to voter and election fraud.
Under the terms of this groundbreaking settlement, the people of Ohio can
now rest easier that their elections will be cleaner, beginning with the
2014 elections. Moreover, given that the problem of dirty rolls is a
nationwide problem, Ohio’s good faith steps to address it can serve as a
model for other states. Rest assured, JW will do everything in its power to
see that it does.
Now to the specifics.
Under the terms of the settlement, which extend through November 2018, the
state of Ohio specifically agreed to take or continue to take the following
nine actions relating to voter roll list maintenance and NVRA compliance:
To participate in the State and Territorial Exchange of Vital Events (
STEVE) to obtain out-of-state death information.
To participate in the Interstate Voter Registration Cross-Check program
administered by the Kansas Secretary of State to identify registered voters
who have moved out-of-state.
To use Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles data to identify registered voters
who move within Ohio, with frequent updates being sent to local officials.
To use an online voter registration change of address website to
encourage voters to keep their registration information current.
To conduct a special, monthly, duplicate registration elimination
program, within defined technical thresholds, for all Ohio County boards of
election voter lists.
To keep online, and available for public access, a current voter
registration list.
To require the county boards of election to send accurate survey
information to the Secretary of State’s Office, to be compiled and
forwarded to the Election Assistance commission for its NVRA-related surveys.
To use reasonable efforts to promote the expanded use by recent college
graduates of Ohio’s online voter registration change of address system,
including education to remind college graduates to keep their voter
registration addresses and information current and to request necessary
updates; and to endeavor to coordinate these activities in conjunction with
Ohio’s colleges and universities.
To direct boards of election to send confirmation notices annually to
voters who may be inactive; and to query boards of election on a regular
basis as to whether this direction is being followed.
As you can plainly see, these are specific and verifiable actions that will
most certainly help to fix voter registration lists in Ohio and lead to
cleaner, more reliable elections.
This has been a year-long fight for Judicial Watch. Our legal action against
the state of Ohio began in February 2012 when Judicial Watch sent a letter
to the state of Ohio notifying it of violations of Section 8 of the NVRA,
which requires states to take reasonable steps to ensure that their voter
rolls contain only eligible voters. Judicial Watch subsequently filed its
lawsuit in partnership with True the Vote on August 12, 2012.
“This settlement marks a milestone in the fight to make certain that voter
rolls are being properly maintained across the state; helping to assure the
public that the most basic principles of federal election law are being
upheld; and helping to restore Ohioans’ faith in the integrity of our
voting system,” said True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht. “
Election officials in the state of Ohio are to be commended for shouldering
their responsibility to maintain clean voter registration lists.”
I’d like to recognize the fine work of our legal team, which was led by
Paul Orfanedes, JW’s Director of Litigation. At Judicial Watch, Paul was
helped by JW attorneys Chris Fedeli and Bob Popper. Also partnering with us
was J. Christian Adams of the Election Law Center. Our local counsel for the
litigation is David R. Langdon and Joshua R. Bolinger of Langdon Law, LLC.
Judicial Watch lawsuits don’t litigate themselves, and our legal team puts
tremendous time and effort into our public interest litigation.
As part of our Election Integrity Project, JW investigators found that voter
rolls in a number of states contained a great number of registrations for
individuals who were ineligible to vote. The Obama Justice Department, which
is more interested in opposing voter ID than enforcing laws to ensure clean
elections.
Judicial Watch notified a dozen states that they must clean up their voter
registration lists or face lawsuits. Judicial Watch and True the Vote
subsequently filed lawsuits against election officials in Indiana and Ohio,
and prompted the state of Florida and other states, without litigation, to
remove thousands of ineligible voters from state registration lists.
According to independent research published by Pew Charitable Trusts in
February 2012, approximately 24 million active voter registrations
throughout the United States--or one out of every eight registrations--are
either no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.
This is a problem that is of the highest priority for JW as we continue to
make certain that every vote cast is legitimate and lawful.
The forces on the left are not going to be pleased with this turn of events
because it hampers their ability to steal elections. You can expect leftist
groups like Project Vote and the various ACORN spinoffs to continue to wreak
havoc in the electoral process. We must remain vigilant if we are to
counter these efforts effectively. In fact, we have active litigation over
clean election rolls in Indiana and are seeking to defend North Carolina
clean election laws from a coordinated assault by Eric Holder and fronts for
Al Sharpton and other radicals.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is author of the NY Times best-seller “
The Corruption Chronicles” and executive producer of the documentary “
District of Corruption.” | a**e
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: Historic Settlement Reached with Ohio in Lawsuit over Clean Voter Rolls
: Judicial Watch recently announced that it reached a settlement in an August
: 30, 2012 lawsuit against the state of Ohio, which resulted in an agreement
: with Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to take or continue to take a series
: of actions to further ensure that the state is in compliance with the
: National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
: It may have taken our actions to bring these issues into focus, but in the
: end, election officials in the State of Ohio made the decision to do the
: right thing for citizens of the state and for election integrity.
: This is an historic settlement, the first of its kind in the history of the
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