Voter fraud advocates lose in 6th Circuit case

AP/NY Times:

The federal appeals court here ruled Tuesday that Ohio could require absentee voters to provide proof of their identities.

The decision overturned the ruling of a federal district judge, Algenon L. Marbley, who granted a temporary restraining order last week to labor and antipoverty groups that claimed county elections boards were enforcing that new requirement inconsistently.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit lifted the order on Sunday at the request of Attorney General Jim Petro and, in its ruling by a three-judge panel Tuesday, held that Judge Marbley should not have intervened after absentee voting had begun.

“There is a strong public interest in smooth and effective administration of the voting laws that mitigates against changing the rules in the middle of the submission of absentee ballots,” Judge Julia Smith Gibbons wrote for the appeals court.

Under the new law, an absentee voter must submit a written application that includes a driver’s license number, the last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number, or a copy of a current photo identification, military identification, utility bill or bank statement.

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This will put a crimp in Democrat attempts to vote the dead and other non residents. The arguments against voter ID seen to be made in bad faith. It is just unreasonable to suggest that voters do not have valid ID or can't get it. When you way that against the harm done by permitting voter fraud, i.e. the election of Democrats, the case just makes no sense.