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Saturday, March 14th, 2015

Ohio’s Huge Voter Fraud Investigation Turns Up Nearly Nothing

Author:     Kira Lerner
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     March 13, 2015 at 2:00 pm
 Link: Ohio’s Huge Voter Fraud Investigation Turns Up Nearly Nothing
Stephan:   Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted is a typical Theocratic Rightist hack, in my opinion, doing the bidding of ALEC. The myth of voter fraud which is cited over and over by Republican state officials, as this report demonstrates, is just that: a myth. The rationalization of fraud is, of course, another way of suppressing the vote. As the report states, "According to a recently released report by Nonprofit VOTE, voting in Ohio dropped by 22 percent from 2012 to 2014 and the state ranked 34th in overall turnout in 2014, a year which saw the lowest national turnout since World War II."
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted Credit: Andrew Welsh-Huggins/AP

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted
Credit: Andrew Welsh-Huggins/AP

Forty-four non-citizens may have voted illegally in Ohio at some point since 2000.

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has been on a mission to weed out purported voter fraud in the state since he took office in 2011. After launching an investigation into what he called an “expanding loophole” allowing non-citizens to vote in Ohio and potentially decide elections, he announced Thursday that 145 non-citizens were registered to vote illegally in 2014, amounting to just .0002 percent of the 7.7 million registered voters in the state.

Husted’s office would not provide any information about the 27 people it referred to the Attorney General’s office for further review. But in 2013, his office sent 17 potential cases — .0003 percent of total ballots cast in the state — to the AG who eventually referred them to county prosecutors. Most reports of voting irregularities were dropped by the county prosecutors because the “voter fraud” problems were […]

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