Posted: October 28, 2008
OH Court Resolves Lingering Provisional Issues
The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has ordered that Ohio provisional ballots shall not be rejected merely because poll workers failed to execute their part of the accompanying paperwork properly. However, the order does not detail what to do if voters, due to poor instructions from poll workers or other reasons, themselves fail to execute their part of the paperwork properly. The order also states that addresses that do not correspond to any building shall be considered acceptable addresses for purposes of voting so long as the voter intends to return to that address. See Major Pending Cases case page, Lawsuit Tracker page.
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Commentary
Silence of the Lambs
Dale A. Oesterle
With the election of 2012 now well over and past the second inauguration of the incumbent President, the historical analysis of the events has begun and will last as long as written human history lasts. An interesting tidbit may already be lost to the majesty of the moment.
The voters of three very different states, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Ohio, all had an opportunity to call state constitutional conventions. In each state the voters turned the opportunity down by very similar votes, 68%, 64% and 68% respectively against.
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