Good Lord. If you haven’t been following the case in Ohio, Ace gives a nice run-down:

The basics are that Ohio had a system for matching voter information to information from databases, and the state was supposed to alert the county boards of election when “voters” from their jurisdictions failed to match up with known information.

Secretary of State Brunner — a hyperpartisan Democrat — simply “turned off” (in the court’s words) this legally-mandated process for no offered explanation, thus compelling, effectively, local boards of elections to accept all registrations and votes, even from the huge pool of highly suspect ACORN registrants.

Well, the Sixth Circuit was none too pleased. It concluded that Brunner must actually do her job to prevent voter fraud. She now says she’ll comply with the order, but claims she’s afraid of disenfranchising voters. The Plain Dealer reports:

Brunner said she would comply with the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling late Tuesday but said she is deeply concerned that the decision is a veiled attempt at disenfranchising voters.

The court’s 9-6 opinion, written by Judge Jeffrey Sutton, suggested that voters whose driver’s license number or Social Security number does not exactly match those found on databases maintained by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or Social Security Administration could be required to use provisional ballots instead of conventional ones.

How many new voters does Brunner now admit have mismatched information? Out of 666,000 new or updated, over 200,000.

Since Jan. 1, Ohio has 666,000 newly registered or updated voters — all of whom fall under scrutiny by this latest court ruling. Brunner said an initial review found that at least 200,000 of them might have mismatched information. Once the office identifies all of the mismatched voters, Brunner will send the list to the county boards of election where the individuals have registered.

As Ace points out, Bush’s margin of victory in 2004? 118,457 votes. And now Brunner says that over 200,000 new/updated voters have mismatched information. And she apparently wanted them to be accepted blindly. Lovely.