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Bumbling Republicans Let Democrats Get Away With Massive Vote Fraud

Sigh. A federal appeals court on Saturday dealt a blow to Democrat election thieves in Ohio, but now the crooks have been handed a victory ... by Republicans.

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  "State Republicans withdrew thousands of more than 35,000 challenges to new voter registrations because of errors in their filings apparently caused by a computer glitch," the Associated Press reported today.

Heard about all that mail sent to thousands of non-existent new "voters" that had to be returned as undeliverable? Those scandals prompted the GOP to file challenges Friday in 65 of the 88 counties.

"Over the weekend, the party withdrew about 4,700 challenges in Hamilton County because the names and addresses on the GOP list didn't match voter rolls, and about two-thirds, or 2,800, of the 4,200 challenges in Franklin County, officials said," AP reported.

"It's too late to file a new challenge under the statute the party used, John Williams, election director in Hamilton County, said Monday. There appeared to be an error in the database program used to print the challenges, so that addresses weren't matched with the correct names, he said."

One positive note: The largest batch of challenges, about 17,000 in Democrat-run Cuyahoga County, is being processed because Republicans didn't screw those up.

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