Judge temporarily halts hearings on Ohio voter registration challenges

[sherilocks]

Updated 10/28/2004 2:02 AM

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily stopped hearings on Republican challenges of thousands of voter registrations, ruling in favor of Democrats who alleged the challenges were an attempt to keep legitimate votes from being counted.
U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott ruled that six county elections boards should stop hearings scheduled this week in Ohio, a hotly contested state for Tuesday's presidential election.
The Republicans challenged as many as 35,000 registrations after mail came back undelivered, saying they could be fraudulent. About half the challenges were filed in Democrat-heavy Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland.
Democrats filed suit Tuesday requesting an order to halt the hearings that county boards of elections had scheduled to determine whether challenged voters live where they are registered and should remain on the rolls.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/state/ohio/2004-10-27-voter-registration_x.htm

[saracat]

1. Must be an activist judge that might want people to vote! Now theres

a shocker!

[Born Free]

2. damn democrats....

trying to steal the election by letting all the people vote, what's this country coming to?

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x937852