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UPDATE WEDNESDAY EVENING! “BRUNNER COMPELLED BY COURT TO ADMIT SHE’S BEEN CONCEALING TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNMATCHED REGISTRATIONS FROM LOCAL BOARDS OF ELECTIONS” reports Ace of Spades Hq here (h/t NRO’s Jonah Goldberg).

UPDATE OCTOBER 15! American Thinker reports here “Temporary restraining order reimposed in Ohio voting scandal.” Clarice Feldman writes:  “In looking at the decision, it appears the full court voted 9-6 to hear the case en banc (which means all of them). I’d say the 9-6 vote is a good sign, but doesn’t necessarily mean the case will end that way. Tonight’s decision has been described as the opportunity to ‘live and fight another day.’ But in the world of temporary restraining orders, if you have it, that’s all that matters for the time being. And the time being is what is crucial right now.”

UPDATE THIS AFTERNOON! Michelle Malkin reports here in “ACORN Watch: RICO suit filed in Ohio” – “The Buckeye Institute has filed a RICO suit against ACORN in Ohio. This should be done in every one of the states where ACORN ‘franchises’ operate. Full complaint is here.“

Ohio Election Fraud Threatens Our National Foundations

Last week, we wrote here about voter-registration abuse in Virginia and how the State Board of Elections allows it to happen.  CEI’s Hans Bader had pointed readers to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot here:

“Norfolk election officials on Friday reluctantly loosened procedures for registering college students to vote after protests from presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign and an admonishment from state election officials.  The Illinois senator’s campaign complained that the Norfolk registrar’s policy of sending a questionnaire to anyone applying to register from a college campus discouraged students from following through. The State Board of Elections asked general registrar Elisa J. Long to halt the practice.” (Underscoring Forum’s.)

This morning the American Thinker’s Rick Moran tells us here the consequences of stealing Ohio:

“McCain’s momentum propelled him back into the race and in a furious last minute charge that involved spending more than $25 million in combined campaign and Republican National Committee ad money that last weekend surged to within just a few points of Obama by Election Day.

Now, at 6:00 AM the following day, the race hangs on the results in just one state; Ohio. McCain leads by nearly 50,000 votes but suddenly, Ohio’s Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announces that several thousand McCain absentee ballots have been disqualified while additional thousands of votes in Cuyahoga County were ‘discovered’ to have not been counted. After several more hours of confusion — which included the discovery of more uncounted votes in heavily Democratic counties by the Secretary of State — McCain’s lead is gone and Obama is declared the winner of Ohio and the election.”

And how would it be done?

Associate editor Moran draws our attention here to an October 6 New York Post piece “Voter-Fraud Chaos | Dems’ ‘November Surprise’” by former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, and Ken Klukowski:

“A perfect example is Ohio. Last Monday the Ohio Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, interpreted Ohio law to allow for people to register to vote and cast an absentee ballot on the same day.

(As the three dissenters noted, this directly contradicts Ohio’s Constitution, which requires that a person register to vote 30 days in advance of actually casting that vote. But the Ohio Supreme Court is the last word on Ohio state law.)

So now the Obama campaign is using buses to take tens of thousands of people to go register and cast same-day votes. Some media reports say that the Obama camp hopes to get hundreds of thousands of votes this way.

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“As a nation, we must act now, before Election Day, to prevent voter fraud. If we don’t, we could again enter December still fighting about who the next president will be. Imagine Florida-style litigation going on in multiple states, with countless disputes about who is a legal resident and where their ballot was cast, and you’ll see what we could be facing. The key is to closely scrutinize all of these activities beforehand - so that we do not find ourselves in a chaotic situation after the polls close. The right to vote is a fundamental right. It is violated when a qualified voter is denied his or her vote - and also when a legal vote is canceled out by an illegal vote.“ (Underscoring Forum’s.)

Readers are encouraged to read Rick Moran’s entire post here.

Columbus voter:  “Ohio is Being Abducted”

Moran links to a Palestra post here that declares:

“The system seems seriously flawed. Unless Secretary Brunner can explain how this ‘no ID, no residency, no problem’ early voting law is fair, none of those votes should count. Especially with the controversial actions of groups like Acorn that are alive and well here in Buckeye country. Bernadine Decicco, an outraged citizen of Columbus told me this: ‘All my life I’ve been an Ohio citizen, born and raised here, and Ohio is being abducted.’”

Presumably Ohio conservatives are pursuing remedies through the Federal courts. But what will the US Department of Justice here now do to monitor Ohio voting?  And, most important, what will the president do?  Whatever various courts may rule, the president has his own “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” duty. Mr. Bush can certainly use the bully pulpit this week to focus national attention on the grossest potential abuses in the coming presidential election.

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