Some numbers for Ohio

Ohio is a pivotal state for national elections. In 2012, Obama won by 3%. There are some interesting numbers behind this story -- from Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler:

Report: 20% of Ohio�s Registered Voters are Bogus
Barack Obama defeated* Mitt Romney by 166,214 votes in Ohio in 2012. That�s out of 5,489,028 votes cast. So Obama�s victory margin was just 3 percent, 50 to 47 over Romney.

But 20% of Ohio�s voters should not be on the rolls at all, according to a story in the Columbus Dispatch.

More than one out of every five registered Ohio voters is probably ineligible to vote.

In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population: Northwestern Ohio�s Wood County shows 109 registered voters for every 100 eligible, while in Lawrence County along the Ohio River it�s a mere 104 registered per 100 eligible.

And, while we are on the subject, there is also this little tid-bit:

Ohio�s elections chief, Secretary of State Jon Husted, sought help from Attorney General Eric Holder to clean up the state�s roles. You may have guessed how that went, as Husted is a Republican.

In a Feb. 10 letter, he asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a personal meeting to discuss how to balance seemingly conflicting federal laws so he could pare Ohio�s dirty voter list without removing truly eligible voters.

�Common sense says that the odds of voter fraud increase the longer these ineligible voters are allowed to populate our rolls,� Husted said. �I simply cannot accept that.�

Holder�s office has never replied.

We need to focus on the Office of the Secretary of State in 2014 and 2016 as this is the Office that controls the operation of voting in the individual states. I know I plan to be volunteering some time here...