Ohio Dems Don't Want Accountability in Voter Registration

It is well known that every election includes massive voter fraud - so much that results in some races have certainly been changed. Ohio, along with other states, has sought to tighten up voter registration rules to make it less likely that fraudulent registrations can be submitted and approved. That's not sitting well with Ohio Dems:

For Tony Minor, the pastor of the Community of Faith Assembly in a run-down section of East Cleveland, Ohio’s new voter registration rules have meant spending two extra hours a day collecting half as many registration cards from new voters as he did in past years.

Republicans say the new rules are needed to prevent fraud, but Democrats say they are making it much harder to register the poor.

In the last year, six states have passed such restrictions, and in three states, including Ohio, civic groups have filed lawsuits, arguing that the rules disproportionately affect poor neighborhoods.

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Under the law, passed by the Republican-led state legislature in January 2006, paid voter registration workers must personally submit the voter registration cards to the state, rather than allow the organizations overseeing the drives to vet and submit them in bulk.

By requiring paid canvassers to sign and put their addresses on the voter registration cards they collect, and by making them criminally liable for any irregularities on the cards, the rules have made it more difficult to use such workers, who most often work in lower-income and Democratic-leaning neighborhoods, where volunteers are scarce.

There have been multiple examples from every state where bulk registrations have yielded fraudulent names and addresses. Making the canvassers responsible for fraud is a great step in the right direction.

Despite all the moaning and groaning from the Dems, the GOP doesn't seem to be having the same problems:

“Quit whining,” said the Rev. Russell Johnson, the pastor of Fairfield Christian Church, who chuckled while shaking his head. “We work with the same challenges that everyone else does and we’re not having trouble.”

Surrounded by cornfields and middle-income homes, Mr. Johnson’s 4,000-member evangelical church in Lancaster, Ohio, is part of a coalition of conservative groups that aims to sign up 200,000 new voters by November, he said.

In the past several elections, Republicans have been effective in registering voters and getting them to the polls. Mr. Johnson said conservatives were better able to depend on voter registration volunteers because the conservatives had a message that attracted people who were willing to work free.

Republicans in Ohio have lots of problems these days thanks to a corrupt GOP governor, but nobody should have to work at a disadvantage caused by a system that rewards fraudulent behavior. Personally, I have no problem requiring valid ID in order to vote, but there's no way a law like that will ever get past the Dems who count so heavily on voter fraud.