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Republican Party efforts to stop thousands of voters from casting meaningful ballots in 2008 because their registration information does not match government databases with high error rates was set back by legal rulings in Wisconsin, Ohio and Nevada on Thursday.
In Wisconsin, a judge threw out a lawsuit by the state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican and McCain-Palin campaign co-chair. In Ohio and Nevada, each state’s top election official issued an order or opinion rejecting such ‘no-match’ voter challenges.
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In Ohio, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat and former judge, issued a directive telling local election officials that they cannot stop a person from voting on Nov. 4 if their individual voter registration did not match these two government databases.
Brunner’s directive, which has the force of law, comes after Ohio Republicans lost on this issue in a case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, and also withdrew a similar lawsuit at the state Supreme Court.
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