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SCOTUS Swats Ohio GOP's Voter Registration 'Hail Mary'

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The Supreme Court ruled today to stay a restraining order requiring Ohio to verify thousands of voter registrations by today:

The Supreme Court appeal by [Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer] Brunner, a Democrat, said many mismatches will appear for trivial reasons. She said Wednesday that as many as 200,000 of Ohio’s 660,000 new registrants this year could be affected. She said her office was working to comply with the order but was turning up glitches in the matching process.

The concern was that some voters would be denied their right to vote for reasons as insignificant as typos.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

In its brief decision, the Supreme Court said the U.S. District Court in Columbus should not have granted the Ohio Republican Party’s request for the restraining order. The Supreme Court said the order wasn’t justified because the Ohio GOP was not sufficiently likely to prevail in its argument that the lower court was authorized by Congress to enforce a section of the federal Help America Vote Act in a lawsuit brought by a private citizen.

Supreme Court Sides With Ohio Election Official [WSJ]

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