On October 17, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Ohio Republican Party's attempt to get an estimated 200,000 early voter registrations in Ohio discarded on the grounds of mismatched data.Bloomberg: Ohio Democrats Win at Top U.S. Court ... (October 17, 2008) BBC: Court blocks Ohio vote challenge (October 17, 2008)
Citing the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the federal appeals court in Ohio had attempted to force Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to provide county election boards with lists of new registrants whose information didn't match governmental databases. County boards could have made registered voters on this list file provisional ballots, and thus be open to challenge.Bloomberg: Ohio Democrats Win at Top U.S. Court in Voting Fight (Update2) (October 17, 2008) BBC: Court blocks Ohio vote challenge (October 17, 2008)
In the case of Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party, the court ruled that the Help America Vote Act does not authorize private individuals to sue the government.Bloomberg: Ohio Democrats Win at Top U.S. Court in Voting Fight (Update2) (October 17, 2008)
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The original GOP argument was that the 2002 Help America Vote Act requires Brunner to share all mismatches with county boardsBBC: Court blocks Ohio vote challenge (October 17, 2008)
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Brunner argued that many of the discrepancies are misspellings or inaccuracies in databases that had no relationship to a voter's eligibilityBloomberg: Ohio Democrats Win at Top U.S. Court in Voting Fight (Update2) (October 17, 2008)
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