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Brunner wins: Supreme Court reverses Sixth Circuit on “mismatched” voter registration forms
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Just across. I thought it was Stevens, as the Sixth Circuit’s Circuit Justice, who was set to rule with a possible rehearing among the full Court forthcoming, but AFP makes it sound like the full Court’s already decided. I have a feeling this turned on some procedural nuance — ...

SCOTUS Sides With Fraud
PoliPundit.com — SCOTUS Sides With Fraud WASHINGTON ( AP ) - The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio’s top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations. The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio’s top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters whose driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter registration forms ...

Gaming the system
protein wisdom — Now that SCOTUS has shot down Repubs for lacking standing to sue over voter fraud in Ohio, efforts such as this one are increasingly likely. Cheat first, let it get sorted out later, is the strategy, it seems — because no one will force the recall of an elected President. At least, that’s the underlying assumption. And the ends, as we know, justify the means. Of course, the added long-term bonus of such a gambit is to undermine our faith in the electoral system — effectively disrupting the mechanism for running a democratic republic from within. But to many on the ...