Ohio’s voter registration loophole law has some interesting consequences.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Never mind the last days of the presidential campaign. The busiest days for Barack Obama’s campaign in this perennial swing state are likely to be a month before Election Day.

Ohio has created a window in the election calendar that would allow residents instant gratification — register one minute, vote the next. It’s also given the campaigns of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain a chance to bank thousands of first-time voters during that Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 window.

The move will benefit Obama, who enjoys a 2-to-1 lead over McCain among 18- to 34-year-olds, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released last month. If Obama’s campaign were able to tap into college campuses with one-stop voting, it would add thousands of votes to his tally in a state where, in 2004, John Kerry lost to President Bush by only about 118,000 votes, putting Bush over the top in the electoral count.

Ohio elections officials say they are working out potential kinks, such as questions about whether a vote counts when it is cast or when it’s counted. They also are trying to address potential fears of massive voting fraud, and what effect this influx is going to mean on vote security.

“The prospect of someone coming in with no ID and registering and voting is contrary to every sort of protection that legislators and lawmakers have built into this system for decades,” said Kevin DeWine, a Republican lawmaker who is poised to take over the state party after the election. “The processes and the law and the systems in our 88 counties are not equipped to handle same-day registration.”

People in Ohio can register without identification, but they have to show some sort of ID to vote.

State lawmakers accidentally made the window before the 2006 elections. Obama’s campaign is eager to take advantage of it this year.

“This is one of many ways we’ll be encouraging our supporters to skip the lines on Election Day and make sure their vote is cast early,” said Isaac Baker, an Obama spokesman.

The move is likely to bring Obama to Ohio for nonstop campaigning that week. Also, television ads are expected to be in heavy play as both campaigns try to take advantage of the electoral oddity. And the early push could help neutralize any last-minute attacks by one campaign on the other.

Obama should love this loophole since his best chance of winning is to ensure that his personality is bigger than his policies.  Obama has consistently come up with weak policies for important issues that are shot full of holes time and time again.  This is the main reason that his poll numbers are stagnant in a year that should have been a democratic landslide, people are unsure or unbelieving in his answers.  Why does Obama still maintain this level?  Well there are the obvious “going to vote democrat no matter what vote” and then there are the people mezmorized by his personality and massive media coverage. By allowing people to vote the second they are registered the potential for voting with your emotions instead of your head is much greater, which is deffinatly an Obama boon.

This loophole will also potentially allow unqualified voters to cast a vote.  Since the majority of these people will be illeagle minorities this is also a boon for Obama since he holds a lead with minorities.  The red tape nightmare of figuring out who is qualified to vote and then matching those up with ballots and disregarding the ballots for people who don’t qualify holds the potential for some serious question marks on the final Ohio results.