Allowing voters to cast their ballots weeks before Election Day is a growing trend. More than a dozen states permit early voting, and more than two dozen provide an absentee ballot to any registered voter for any reason. The battleground states of Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico allow voters both options.
In Ohio, Republicans are clearly not pleased with same-day registration and voting and have not ruled out a lawsuit against Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office.
"You have to wonder, when they look at what they consider a loophole with such excitement," said Jason Mauk, the Ohio Republican Party's executive director. "That would suggest manipulating the process, and I think opens the door to suspicion."
The voting window, so far, is only being implemented in some counties - typically, urban areas or those with college campuses - leading Republicans to cry foul.
"The prospect of someone coming in with no ID and registering and voting is contrary to every sort of protection that legislators and lawmakers have built into this system for decades," said Kevin DeWine, a Republican lawmaker who is poised to take over the state party after the election. "The processes and the law and the systems in our 88 counties are not equipped to handle same-day registration."
People in Ohio can register without identification, but they have to show some sort of ID to vote.
State lawmakers accidentally made the window before the 2006 elections. Obama's campaign is eager to take advantage of it this year.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/13/Ohio_voting.html
SO CAN SOMEONE TEL MY WHY THE DEMOCRATS NEED TO TRY AND CHEAT IN THIS ELECTION. COUNTING VOTES THAT COULD BE BY AN ILLEGAL OR SOMEONE FROM ANOTHER STATE. SOMEONE WHO PROBABLY WOULDN'T EVEN BE A AMERICAN CITIZEN. SHOULD THE DEMOCRATS GET AWAY WITH THIS?
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