Via Hypothetically Speaking
http://www.loganselm.blogspot.com/2004/10/ohio-gop-behind-bad-hamilton-co-voter.html
The wheels may be about to fall off of the Ohio Republican Party's challenge to over 35,000 voter registrations in Ohio.
A story in today's Enquirer (http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/24/loc_voters24.html) indicates that the GOP mishandled the data and mailing lists of new voter registrants and that these screw ups are behind many (maybe most) of the "questionable" voter registrations.
The controversy started when the GOP sent a mailing to over 230,000 new voters in 65 counties. Allegedly, about 35,000 of these mailings could not be delivered. Ohio GOP chairman and others blamed ACORN, ACT, MoveON, the unions and others for "massive and systemic voter registration fraud" and on Friday announced that they would launch challenges against these 35,000 in each of the county boards of election.
On Saturday, the Hamilton County Board of Election examined the over 5,000 returned mailers from that region. Lo and behold, instead of fraud, the BOE found that the GOP had mismatched the names and addresses of the recipients.
Not that they had a lot of choice, but the GOP screw-ups are so bad that Bennett had to announce that it will drop all of their challenges in Hamilton County.
The Enquirer story also has GOP spokesman Jason Mauk saying they don't think there are problems with their challenges elsewhere. Right.
There are enough good county boards of election in Ohio to determine if this is more widespread.