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Ohio Christian Alliance Urges Delay of Implementation of Online Voter Registration in Ohio to Safeguard Ohio's Vote


Fri, Mar 18th, 2016 11:23:58 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2016

Ohio Christian Alliance Urges Delay of Implementation of Online Voter Registration in Ohio to Safeguard Ohio's Vote
S.B. 63, the online voter registration bill, has raised concerns that it may further threaten Ohio's election integrity. Ohio's elections process has been under some scrutiny over the past several years due to an increase in reported voter fraud cases, referenced in the Ohio SOS Post-Election Voter Fraud Reports May 2013, SOS December 2013 Report "Non-U.S. Citizens Register and Vote in the Battleground State of Ohio", SOS report March 12, 2015 in which it was reported that 436 non-U.S. citizens were registered to vote in Ohio, 44 of whom actually cast ballots, and the June 25, 2015 SOS report "14 Individuals Referred for Investigation for Allegedly Illegally Voting." Additionally, Franklin County reported more than 90 cases of double voting in the 2012 Presidential Election as reported in the Columbus Dispatch in June of 2013. Also, nineteen indictments were handed down in Hamilton County.
A state-wide citizens' audit of Ohio county BOE's conducted in the aftermath of the 2012 Presidential Election also indicated a number of irregularities and suspicious activity through eyewitness accounts. What is clear in these reports is that voter fraud is a growing problem in the battleground State of Ohio, and more measures need to be enacted to get out in front of the problem.
Ohio is a must-win state for the campaigns, and there are those who would game the election system to achieve a fraudulent advantage. To enact online voter registration at this time would be ill-advised. There are a number of concerns regarding the security of the online access and process of voter registration that S.B. 63 raises.
What the general public has learned over the last several years is that no website is secure from hackers. When the secure websites of The Pentagon, The White House, The Office of Personnel Management of the U.S. government in which 21.5 million people were exposed, and the web site of Ohio then-Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner have all been hacked, then the insistence that this website will be completely safe is purely conjecture and wishful thinking.
OCA President Chris Long stated, "When it comes to the value of the voting process in our Republic, we need to proceed with extreme caution before the suggestion of online voter registration is seriously considered. This is no time for a cavalier attitude concerning the voter integrity process in Ohio. At a minimum, our suggestion is to delay the implementation of this legislative proposal until 2017, and that a trial run should be conducted to assure that the security of the website platform can be verified before full implementation of online voter registration in the State of Ohio."
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Contact Chris Long 330-887-1922



 

 

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