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Appeals Court Decision Brings Good News on Voter Registration in Ohio
When Northern District of Ohio Judge Solomon Oliver put an Ohio voter registration law on hold last month, it turns out that was not the final ruling.
On Wednesday, a 2-1 ruling from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Oliver’s ruling, reinstating a law requiring proof of citizenship before registering to vote in person at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Oliver’s ruling was appealed by Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who requested a stay that was ultimately granted. He was quick to celebrate Wednesday’s decision on X.
Reporting from Reuters described the appeals court decision as “a boost for allies of President Donald Trump who want tighter voter registration rules.”
On Thursday, Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague, who is running as the Republican nominee to succeed the term-limited LaRose, chimed in with a quoted repost on X. He referred to the upheld law as “foundational for secure, trustworthy Ohio elections.”
The decision was also celebrated by Honest Elections Project’s Jason Snead, who also spoke to the failings of Oliver’s rulings.
“Ohio is right to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The [National Voter Registration Act] does not prevent states from taking steps to verify voter eligibility, and Ohio’s requirement is a straightforward safeguard to ensure that only citizens are registered to vote,” Snead told the Daily Signal.
“This case is yet another attempt by left-wing litigants to block commonsense election protections and create chaos in the voter registration process. Honest Elections Project applauds the Sixth Circuit for reinstating Ohio’s law and allowing this basic election safeguard to remain in effect.”
His group filed a brief in the case of Red, Wine & Blue v. Frank LaRose, encouraging the appeals court to overturn Oliver’s ruling, which had cited the National Voter Registration Act.
Not only are the midterm elections just over a month away, with Ohio having many “toss-up” races, but early voting begins on Oct. 5.
“In temporarily pausing Oliver’s order, a three-judge 6th Circuit panel said advocacy groups that challenged the law likely lacked standing, and that the order came too close to the election,” the Reuters report noted about the decision.
Lifelong Dem Ditches El-Sayed Over Islamic Terror Justification
A teacher at the Michigan synagogue and preschool attacked by an Islamic terrorist in May stated that she would not be voting for Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, despite being a lifelong Democrat, because of his apparent lack of regard for the Jewish community.
After the attack took place, which began after a heavily armed Hezbollah-aligned terrorist rammed his car into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, El-Sayed justified the attack by stating that “hurt people hurt people.”
The attacker’s family members, who were also identified as Hezbollah fighters, were killed in Lebanon by an Israeli strike prior to the attack.
“Abdul El-Sayed stands for everything that I believe in, everything, except that he does not support the Jewish community,” Elise Otis, the teacher at Temple Israel, said. That is a big point for me. I have children, and God willing, will have grandchildren one day, and nieces and nephews, but he doesn’t support them, so I can’t support him.”
“I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel safe with him,” Otis added.
El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
Months after El-Sayed’s comments about the attack, the candidate said that his “comments might have been misconstrued.”
“To anybody who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry. That was not my intention. We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright,” he added.
Despite his apology, national Jewish organizations have continued to raise awareness over their skepticism of El-Sayed.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that focuses on combatting the defamation of Jewish people, accused El-Sayed of “peddling in antisemitic tropes” in a statement in August.
“Throughout the campaign, ADL has called out nominee Abdul El-Sayed for peddling in antisemitic tropes … or for campaigning with notorious bigot Hasan Piker,” Greenblatt said in a video statement. “Campaign trail rhetoric and actions send clear signals about what a person believes and what a political party thinks is permissible.”
“We are not going to stop, and we will keep calling on political leaders and candidates from both parties to reject antisemitism and to commit to combating it whenever and wherever it occurs,” he added.
