Foreclosure may have a serious impact on voting rolls, especially in a state like Ohio. This is because many real estate owners have left their houses but continue to be registered at their previous addresses. They are expected to cast their votes as provisional votes, and those provisional votes may become the deciding factor for the election result. According to Ohio State University Law Professor and election specialist, Mr. Daniel Tokii, it’s a real issue. He is even suspicious about the voting result of 2004 in which President Bush was elected and surprisingly got the electoral votes to win the election from Ohio.

The rising trend of foreclosure instigates more provisional votes and the trend was started in the 2004 election, and is still continuing. In Columbus, just 3700 people are registered to vote where practically the number is many times more than that, as reported by the city’s code-enforcement office and the Franklin County Board of Elections, The Columbus Dispatch. In January, the Franklin County Board of Elections sent notices to 27,000 such voters that had filed out change of address forms but a response has come from only 10,000 of these by the end of May 2008.

Homeowners who no longer possess any real estate property have become very important for the coming election in November. These people are directed to register by themselves; their county has no responsibility towards their registrations. Moreover, this makes it difficult to keep the voting list updated. Those people who are alive, even registered, but have not voted in the last eight years of elections have also been ticked out from the list in Franklin County.

Keeping their registration updated is a must for the voters, and to do so it is compulsory to show identification at the polls, as decided for Ohio, the ninth among the states with the highest foreclosure filings. Real estate owners, who have foreclosed properties, thus become challenging and worrisome for both Republican and Democratic parties in Ohio.

The election officials are very harassed in Ohio, the ninth among states and Columbus, the 32nd among cities having the highest rates of foreclosure. So, what will be the situation in the cities like Cleveland, Dayton, Akron, Toledo and Cincinnati? It’s going to be really tough for them to maintain a proper list of registered voters. The situation will be much challenging in Nevada, with the highest in foreclosure filings, including others such as Florida, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado and New Jersey as well.

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