How did a 10-year-old boy from Alabama become a registered voter in Summit County, Ohio?
What’s alarming is that the Summit County Elections Board doesn’t know how it happened. They point out that know one has never used the name to vote. The Board also has stricken Quardaris’s name from the voter rolls. But that does not relieve the Summit County Elections Board from explaining to the public how unqualified individuals can become voters, and go undetected for years. If the boy’s family had not notified the court, the voter fraud (which it is) would probably have never been detected. The Ohio Legislature recently passed legislation that will require voters to show valid identification before voting. Some critics claim the ID requirement causes “voter suppression,” preventing qualified voters from voting, as they claim some people don’t have identification. If this argument has any merit, the state should assist otherwise qualified voter to obtain a valid ID. And if voters who don’t have an ID don’t wait to election day to get an ID, they should have more than sufficient ti