"Linda Howe, executive director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, said a Samuel Joseph Worzelbacher, whose address and age match Joe the Plumber’s, registered in Lucas County on Sept. 10, 1992. He voted in his first primary on March 4, 2008, registering as a Republican."
According to the Ohio Statewide Voter Registration Database, Joe's voter registration was last updated in Lucas county on 8/8/2006.
Joe voted in the state of Ohio in 11/2002, 11/2004, 2/2005, 11/2006, 11/2007, and the March Republican Primary in 2008.
So for at least three elections, Joe the Plumber was receiving mail from the Board of Elections with the wrong name. In at least three elections, the poll workers did not notice his ID had the wrong name. In Ohio, since 2006, you are required to show a driver's license or other gov't ID with your name and address, or a utility bill with name and address.
Is Joe the Plumber guilty of voter fraud? Clearly this is a typo in some database somewhere. But the GOP lawsuit would flag similar voter registration as having a mismatch with the HAVA required DMV or SSA database lookups. These voters run the real risk of being purged from "List Maintenance".
Luckily for Joe, his record is not part of the GOP lawsuit which requires (by a TRO from the Sixth Circuit) for the SOS in Ohio to gather lists of all the Joe's in the state and provided them to counties to investigate this problem of voter registration fraud.
(NOTE: Voter fraud is only when someone registers in multiple counties or states or uses a false name and also attempts to vote fraudulently. The GOP boogeyman and charges against ACORN only apply to voter registration fraud. Voters in Ohio would still need to produce identification, even Mickey Mouse.)
Luckily for Joe, no one checked his ID that closely or he would have been required to vote provisionally. Technically, in this election the Board will have to update his records before the election or he might also be one of the hundreds of thousands voting provisionally in Ohio.
[update] What is at risk from the GOP lawsuit is the status of newly registered voters. SOS Brunner appealed to Ohio's highest court late Wednesday.
At least 200,000 newly registered voters have mismatched data, according to an initial review by Brunner's office. About 666,000 Ohioans registered to vote since January, many before the Democratic presidential primary election...
There are 200,000 newly registered voters who risk being purged at the last minute, unable to have their provisional ballots counted or be able to correct their registration. Sure there are a few fake registrations or phoney information, but the overwhelming majority of the 200,000 voters will be people like Joe the Plumber who have a typo in their registration.
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He also needs to get a plumber's license
Since he's working now without one, either for himself or for his employer and that is a violation of state law.
Also he has no concrete plan to buy the business, as he falsely claimed when talking to Obama, just a dream that someday he might. Sort of the same, except not really.
Quote of the day from Joe:
Too late to worry about that one, Slick.
he's drawn the 'jeff gannon' spotlight
I hope he knew what he was doing.
Bloggers are pointing out his tax collection records. And I wonder how long until they find out his home was transfered to him for $0 (uh, oh, he really hates paying taxes).
Plus he has been voting fraudulently (technically through no fault of his own).
In other words
a good Republican and typical McCain/Palin supporter. Plenty of greed and contempt for the law, plus zero foresight. Hell, he's as qualified as anyone on the Right; maybe he'll make a run for it in 2012.
But might it be
that Joe's real first name is Samuel and he doesn't use it? You can run into this a lot in working the polls. He might even have a license with "S. Joe" on it or something of the sort, which is legal in most states I know about (dunno about Ohio.)
People seem to be losing track of the fact that this guy is a private citizen.
Would you appreciate having your voting record for the last six years published because you asked a candidate a question?
Do you think the newspaper printing so much personal information in such a negative way will help encourage other people to ask the candidates questions?
I would be interested in a more detailed look at why the GOP lawsuit is bad and what a better alternative would be. Why haven't the Dems--or the Greens again, good job last time IIRC--filed suit to counter the GOP suit with a good solution?
not his first name
His last name is wrong in the voter registration database (publicly available in Ohio). They have a Worz.. instead of Wurz..
At anyrate, after I saw him on the CBS homepage giving a 10 minute interview, he stepped out of "some guy" and into the realm of a plant. Even if he is not a plant, he was more than happy enough to hit all the Bush talking-points in an interview. His name was also used more times in the debate then Iraq.
Oh, FYI the Dems could give less a crap about election protection now that they think their guy might win. In fact the only time I ever saw them officially care was for very very close races. But YMMV depending on what state, Ohio the Dems are 100% complicit in voter suppression, machine allocation, and failure to address voting irregularities. Or to the extent you blame the GOP, you need to also blame the ODP.
Also, the Ohio GOP are the only ones suing to allow voter registration forms without the "X" and also suing to allow observers at early voting. The Dems are the ones voting unanimously against it in lock step with Brunners decision to NOT allow observers.
Truth Squad
going after him and want to shut his business down.
Kos has published his address. The Obama movement in action. No looking at Obama's real estate bamboozlement but let's scare the cr*p out of Joe plumber. Plenty of bullying and hatred and contempt for a working guy. Hell, maybe we'll just shut down democracy all together and we won't have to bother with the 2012 election. We've got a good start with Acorn and the media propaganda toilet.
"If we have to have a dictator, who better than Obama"
- progressive blog commentator
I thought the whole "fair game" thing...
... was for the Michelle Malkins of this world?? Apparently not.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
We wanna win!!!
I can't see any consistent theme or core value other than that. And if we turn into Michelle Malkin, makes no difference. Isn't winning the mission statement of KOS?
"If we have to have a dictator, who better than Obama"
- progressive blog commentator
Winning at all costs
That's what I see. And the ends are justifying the means this go-round, on both sides. I'm sympathetic to the fear of McCain, but seeing what Dems and Dem allies are capable of, I think Dems winning may be worse for the country than McCain winning. I am starting to really believe that now.
Only tyrants rig elections.
well
those from cheetoland certainly become what they hated. There were regular postings showing how rabid and stupid the mouthbreathing rethugs were on their forums and blogs...
Now I'm afraid they've become what they used to hate. Anything to win. Ends justifies and all that.