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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio Republicans are trying to scare newly registered voters by filing numerous lawsuits that question their eligibility, the state's Democratic governor said Monday.
The GOP has filed numerous legal challenges questioning the status of about 200,000 newly registered voters in Ohio, warning about the potential for voter fraud.
Gov. Ted Strickland accused the GOP of trying to distract voters from real issues.
"In the last few days the Republicans have tried to instill fear in Ohio voters about whether their registrations to vote will be challenged and whether they will be able to cast a ballot," Strickland said at a news conference with other Democratic leaders, include Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio and Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman.
Republican fundraiser David Myhal has sued Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in the Ohio Supreme Court, arguing that Brunner is violating the law by not providing counties with the names of newly registered voters whose driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers don't match records in other government databases.
The the latest filing challenging Brunner's handling of voter registration discrepancies came Friday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Brunner. The high court said the state GOP didn't have standing to bring the case.
In a separate move, McCain's southwest Ohio campaign chairman, prosecutor Joe Deters, has issued a subpoena for personal information of roughly 40 percent of the 671 voters who registered and cast a ballot on the same day during a weeklong period earlier this month.
A spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party did not immediately reply to an e-mail seeking comment.
About 200,000 of 666,000 voters who have registered in Ohio since Jan. 1 have records that don't match. Brunner has said the discrepancies most likely stem from innocent clerical errors rather than fraud, but she has set up a verification plan.
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