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Ohio Election Officials Seek To Block Voter Challenging Rule: At SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston posts on an application for a stay filed last night in the Supreme Court, asking the Supreme Court to put a hold on a federal judge's order requiring election officials to verify voter registration rolls across the state. Denniston also provides links to the application, Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party, et al., 08A332, and its attached exhibit. The federal court order imposed a Friday deadline for Ohio?s Secretary of State to reprogram a statewide database. Republicans had complained that the state had failed to verify voter data as required by the federal Help America Vote Act. Tuesday, the Sixth Circuit refused to block the order. Rick Hansen at Election Law Blog posts on some thoughts of the en banc opinion...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).