Breaking - Ohio Must Set Up A Way To Verify All New Voters
Federal appeals court rules the system must be in place before Friday
CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court has ordered Ohio’s top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of new voters.
The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must use other government records to check thousands of new voters for registration fraud.
A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit had disagreed last week, but the full court’s ruling overturns that decision.
Ohio Republicans sued Brunner, a Democrat.
Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett called the ruling a victory for the integrity of the electoral process.
Brunner previously had said there was no way to implement the system with such speed.
(AP)
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