rWho are we actually being protected against here?
"HB3's most publicized provision will require positive identification before
casting a vote. But it also opens voter registration activists to partisan
prosecution, exempts electronic voting machines from public scrutiny,
quintuples the cost of citizen-requested statewide recounts and makes it
illegal to challenge a presidential vote count or, indeed, any federal
election result in Ohio. When added to the recently passed HB1, which allows
campaign financing to be dominated by the wealthy and by corporations, and
along with a Rovian wish list of GOP attacks on the ballot box, democracy in
Ohio could be all but over."
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1607