The provision of aid to people to get to register (or to vote) is in no way wrong, for either party. It is standard get-out-the-vote procedure.

Now, every State has its qualifications for registry and voting. If the people subject to this operation honestly meet those qualifications, all is well.

If that State requires a fixed place of abode (just for instance), and the individual doesn't have it, (s)he should be turned down. If (s)he falsifies that information, that is indeed wrong, and what's more, criminal. And other qualifications for the voting franchise follow the same logic. BeardedBruce implies and seems to assume that there would be fraud, but doesn't say so outright, probably because he would not be able to establish that. In fact, both parties have been guilty of fraud in many states, and neither party has a patent on it. Whoever commits fraud, it should be stepped on.

Among other things, BB seems to complain about organized use of the quirk in Ohio's laws which result in the possibility of registering and voting on the same day. As a matter of fact, I also think that is a bad feature of law. BUT, that is in fact the law of the State of Ohio, and people are entitled to take advantage of it. I don't know whether Ohio's laws make such simultaneous registry/voting result in a provisional, checkable-later ballot, as in some other states. If it is not, it is my opinion that it should be a provisional ballot if the quirk is allowed to stand. But those questions are up to the legislature of the State of Ohio.

Vote Today Ohio and the voters involved have every right to utilize the law as it exists. If you don't like the law (and you're an Ohio citizen) work to change it.

In any case, it's not up to non-Ohio Mudcatters to deal with.

Dave Oesterreich