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'''Jennifer Lee Brunner''' (born [[February 5]], [[1957]]) is an [[United States|American]] politician of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] who currently serves as the [[Ohio Secretary of State]]. Brunner is the first woman to serve in this capacity.<ref name=B>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/secBrunner/Biography.aspx|title=Biography|accessdate=2008-10-10|publisher=Ohio.gov|work=www.sos.state.oh.us}}</ref> She assumed control of the office after sixteen years of Republican control, which included two four-year terms by her predecessor [[J. Kenneth Blackwell]] who oversaw the controversial [[2000 United States election|2000]] and [[2004 United States election]]s.<ref name=OEOFCMF/> |
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== Career == |
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Brunner previously worked in the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office as a deputy director and legislative counsel to the [[Ohio General Assembly]] during the administration of [[Sherrod Brown]]. She then began a statewide law practice focusing on [[election law]]. In 2000, Brunner was elected to an unexpired term on the [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin County]] Common Pleas Court and reelected in 2002. She resigned from the Court on [[September 1]], [[2005]], to run for Secretary of State. On [[November 7]], [[2006]], she defeated [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Greg Hartmann]] in the [[United States general elections, 2006|2006 general election]] and took office on [[January 8]], [[2007]]. |
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Ohio is notorious for its 2000 and 2004 Election Day problems. The state had hours-long lines at polling places in its major cities in 2004 and a fraud scandal in Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, that led to the convictions of two elections workers on rigging recounts and Ms. Brunner’s takeover of the county board of elections. In September 2007, Brunner announced extensive efforts to identify and correct serious problems with the security and reliability of voting machines in time for the March 4, 2008 Ohio [[Ohio Democratic primary, 2008|Democratic]] and [[Ohio Republican primary, 2008|Republican primaries]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/us/politics/27vote.html?|title=Ohio to Test Vote Systems Before March|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2007-09-27|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Driehaus, Bob}}</ref> In a [[US$]]1.9 million federally financed study released December 14, 2007, Brunner reported the results of tests of all five voting systems used in Ohio. All systems had major flaws. She has advocated the replacement of all Ohio voting machines, including the [[touch-screen]] ones used in more than 50 of [[List of counties in Ohio|Ohio's 88 counties]].<ref name=OEOFCMF>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/15ohio.html?|title=Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2007-12-15|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Driehaus, Bob}}</ref> Brunner supports a move to paper ballots,<ref name=B/> which would use [[optical scanning]].<ref name=OEOFCMF/> As a result of the study, during the March 2008 primaries, paper ballots were suppose to be available at all polling places for voters who preferred them.<ref name=BSPOEAUHPT/> |
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===Secretary of State accomplishments=== |
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In January, Brunner proposed a plan that would allow counties to recruit poll workers by mail, who would then undertake two paid training days, and work a paid eight-hour shift at the polls on election day.<ref name=AP-polls>{{cite news |title=Ohio considers poll worker draft |url=http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5999483 |publisher=[[Associated Press]] and [[WSTM-TV]] |date=[[2007-01-28]] |accessdate=2007-03-21 }}</ref> Brunner explained the plan in an interview: <blockquote>"In terms of Ohio and what happened in the 2004 presidential election, there has been a crisis in confidence in our election system in Ohio, both nationally and in our state. One of the quickest ways to repair that is to make sure that we have adequate numbers of poll workers. ... We suggested this as one tool that the boards of elections would have available to them for recruiting poll workers. We would be looking to do this similar to how we recruit jurors, only jurors are recruited for two weeks of service whereas we'd only be asking for three days. It would also allow us to offer split shifts to poll workers. In Ohio the polling places are open for thirteen hours, so essentially a poll worker works at least fourteen hours; with the average age of our poll workers at 72, that's a tough day for anyone, no matter what their age is. ... It's an option, and we can even include a trigger, so that a county has to be deficient by a certain percentage of poll workers to even be able to use this."<ref name=ATC>{{cite news |first=Melissa |last=Block |authorlink=Melissa Block |title=Ohio Considers a Draft System for Poll Workers |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7085614 |format=audio interview |work=[[All Things Considered]] |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |date=[[2007-01-30]] |accessdate=2007-03-21 }}</ref></blockquote> In the initial proposal it was not yet decided what wages would be paid, and whether refusing recruitment would result in penalties. The proposal will be decided by the Ohio General Assembly.<ref name=AP-polls/> |
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Brunner has established the Voting Right Institute (VRI) to improve voter access to elections in Ohio. The VRI has instituted a “Grads Vote” program which supplies voter registration forms to all graduating high school [[senior]]. The VRI has also partnered with the [[U.S. Postal Service]] to include voter registration forms in government moving packets and with the Overseas Vote Foundation to improve online absentee ballot applications for overseas and military voters.<ref name=B/> |
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| quote = "Compared to the [[2004 United States election|last presidential election]] [in 2004], this state has gone from intensive care to walking on crutches. By November [2008], we’ll be walking normally like everyone else." |
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| source = —[[Jennifer Brunner]]<ref name=TTaNMBiO/> (March 2008) |
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She has also moved to shield [[Social Security (United States)|social security]] information and other private information from public view for millions of online records and coordinated with the Ohio General Assembly to preventing the filing of private information.<ref name=B/> |
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Brunner worked with Ohio's 88 county boards of elections and thousands of poll workers to ensure record voter turnout in the March Presidential primaries.<ref name=B/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1719573,00.html|title=Clinton Camp Confident of Comeback|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-03-04|publisher=[[Time Inc.]]|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|author=Maag, Christopher}}</ref> Despite the record turnout, the primary was marred by paper ballot shortages, bomb threats, ice storms and power failures.<ref name=TTaNMBiO>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/us/politics/06vote.html?|title=Turnout, Technology and Nature Marred Balloting in Ohio|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-03-06|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Urbina, Ian and Randy Kennedy}}</ref> 21 precints in the [[Cleveland metropolitan area]] were held open for an extra 90 minutes due to paper ballot shortages.<ref name=BSPOEAUHPT>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/us/politics/05vote.html?|title=Ballot Shortages Plague Ohio Election Amid Unusually Heavy Primary Turnout|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-03-05|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Urbina, Ian}}</ref> Brunner claimed that in [[Clermont County, Ohio|Clermont]] and [[Summit County, Ohio|Summit Counties]] ballots ran out because of the number of Republicans who voted in the Democratic primary and that only Democratic ballots ran out.<ref name=BSPOEAUHPT/> |
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===2008 general election=== |
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====Same day voter registration==== |
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On August 13, 2008, Brunner ordered county election board officials to establish procedures to enable voters who [[voter registration|register]] to be immediately issued an [[absentee ballot]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/14/new-ohio-voter-registration-rules-irk-gop/|title=New Ohio Voter Registration Rules Irk GOP|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-08-14|publisher=FOX News Network, LLC.|work=FoxNews.com}}</ref> The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] opposed the same day voting plan and fought it in several Ohio Courts.<ref name=UacOsrviO/> Ohio Republican officials and Republican voters argued in separate [[lawsuit]]s that Ohio law requires voters to be registered for 30 days before they cast an absentee ballot.<ref name=SfcueviO/> On September 29, 2008 (a day after lower state and federal courts overruled GOP objections to same-day registration and voting or GOP requests for mandated ballot segregation and verification) the Sixth [[U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals]] in {{city-state|Cincinnati|Ohio}} rejected Republican efforts to stop the plan.<ref name=UacOsrviO>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/09/us-appeals-cour.html|title=U.S. appeals court OK same-day registration, voting in Ohio|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-09-30|publisher=[[USA Today]]|work=USAToday.com|author=Winter, Michael}}</ref> [[United States district court]] judge James Gwin in {{city-state|Cleveland|Ohio}} also ruled against the Republicans and issued a [[restraining order]] to enforce Brunners plan. In {{city-state|Columbus|Ohio}}, U.S. District Judge George Smith declined to rule on another statewide challenge, deferring to the state Supreme Court's decision. The rulings, which opened a window to register and vote on the same day until the absentee ballot deadline on October 6, 2008, was upheld by the [[Ohio Supreme Court]] in a 4-3 decision in which two Republican [[jurist]]s [[recusal|recused]] themselves and were replaced by a one Republican and one Democrat by [[Chief Justice]] [[Thomas Moyer]]. The normal roster of Ohio Supreme Court jurists is all Republican and the lone Democrat replacement cast the tie-breaking vote.<ref name=SfcueviO>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080929/ap_on_el_pr/ohio_early_voting|title=State, federal courts uphold early voting in Ohio|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-09-29|publisher=[[Yahoo! Inc.]]|work=[[Yahoo! News]]|author=Majors, Stephen}}</ref><ref name=CAEVWiO/> Brunner ordered segregation of same-day-registration ballots and verification of them before counting them on [[Election Day (United States)|Election Day]], November 4, 2008.<ref name=UacOsrviO/> In related proceedings on September 30, 2008, Judge Smith of The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, in Columbus had granted an Ohio Republican Party request for a restraining order that would mandate election observers during early voting.<ref name=OGGLoSRaV/><ref name=CAEVWiO>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/us/politics/30ohio.html|title=Courts Allow Early Voting Week in Ohio|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-09-29|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Brunner prevailed in the appellate court which ruled that the district court “abused its discretion” in granting the restraining order.<ref name=OGGLoSRaV>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/01/ohio-gets-green-light-on-same-day-registration-and-voting/|title=Ohio Gets Green Light on Same-Day Registration and Voting|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-10-01|publisher=[[Dow Jones & Company, Inc.]]|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|author=Merrick, Amy}}</ref> |
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====Other issues==== |
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One month before the [[2008 United States election]], 5% of Ohio mortgages were either severly delinquent or in [[foreclosure]]. There were 67,000 foreclosure actions in the first half of 2008. Republicans are expected to attempt to use foreclosure lists to block voters. Brunner has warned all election boards that involvement in a foreclosure is not, by itself, sufficient basis for challenging enfranchisement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05sun2.html?|title=Foreclosures and the Right to Vote|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-10-04|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> |
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Ohio (along with [[Colorado]], [[Indiana]], [[Michigan]], [[Nevada]] and [[North Carolina]]) is one of six states expected to be heavily affected by compliance with the 2002 [[Help America Vote Act]]. Due to the disproportionate voter registration by Democrats it is anticipated that much of the confusion at the polling places will be for challenges to newly-registered Democrats who have been delisted from the ranks of registered voters. It appears that Ohio is improperly using social security information to verify new voter registration. [[Michael J. Astrue]], commissioner of the [[Social Security Administration]], alerted the [[United States Department of Justice]] and sent letters to six states including Ohio to ensure compliance with federal law. Ohio Republican officials have already filed paperwork that Brunner feels this is an attempt to establish grounds for contesting ballots on election day. The paperwork requires use of [[provisional ballot]]s by persons with discrepant registrations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html?|title=States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal|accessdate=2008-10-10|date=2008-10-08|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Urbina, Ian}}</ref> |
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==Personal== |
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Brunner earned a [[B.A.]] in [[sociology]]-[[gerontology]], [[cum laude]], from [[Miami University]] and a [[J.D.]] from [[Capital University Law School]] with honors. Brunner is a resident of [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], [[Ohio]]. She and her husband, Rick, have been married 28 years and have three adult children.<ref name=B/> |
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In March 2008, Brunner was given the Profile in Courage Award by the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]]. |
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== Notes == |
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== External links == |
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*[http://www.jenniferbrunner.com/biography_full.shtml Campaign biography of Brunner] |
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