After seeing the following diary on Dkos, 600,000 Ohio voters subject to GOP caging. . . I had to pass along another diary from EENR that seems to be just the opposite.
The following is from Karita Hummer at EENR.
Federal law and the U.S. Constitution to trump Ohio Election Law.
Lo and Behold! Voting Progress from Columbus! Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner gives us good voting rights news for a change.
In a Press Release issued from the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, it was announced that she was sending clarification to local Election Boards that " that 60 day notices sent by boards of election to voters that are returned as undeliverable cannot be used as the sole reason for canceling an Ohioan's voter registration."
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/...
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Now, I call that good news for all us voting rights advocates and reformers!. In fact, it makes me feel like shouting out loud for joy. Instead, I'll just send my "Yippee!" along to all of you and just wait to hear the echo of it all the way here to the West Coast (where I live in San Jose, CA. (Well, we're not exactly on the Coast here, but just a stone's throw from the San Francisco Bay, and we have been sweltering under CA in-land conditions that make me dislike Nero Bush even more., who has fiddled his whole eight years while the globe burns up to smithereens.)
But you get my idea. Shout for joy and give thanks!
Further, Brunner is asking the Legislature to revise their cagy law that made it possible for them to cage voters whose mail sent by Boards of Registars was returned for unknown reasons. The Press Release state thqwt he Secretary "called on the General Assembly to amend this voter registration challenge law passed in 2006, urging that the law conflicts with federal law and violates the U.S. Constitution."
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/...
This is the difference between having a modern day, corrupt, Constituion ripping, neo-con republican in charge of the vote and an Honest DEMOCRAT!
For more, please visit Karita Hummer's diary at EENR.
Update:
Not a huge update, just something to pass along from the original author of this diary.
VotersUnite.org - This looks like a good place for all sorts of voter/votinbg news. Both good and bad.
Here is a link to VotersUnite.org news section.
Better Update:
So it looks like we have another BIG problem. What can we do about this?
Ohio's voting machine glitch exposed
Touch-screens can't be fixed before election, Brunner says
Crossposted at MyDD