On March 29, the 6th circuit refused to rehear Hunter v Hamilton County Board of Elections, so now the provisional ballots will finally be counted in a local partisan judicial race from the November 2, 2010 election. Ohio election law says provisional ballots are not valid if they are turned in to the wrong precinct. However, several hundred voters turned in their provisional ballots at the wrong precinct (although in the right building) because poll workers gave them mis-information. Because Hamilton County had already decided to count another set of provisional ballots that were legally shaky, the U.S. District Court and the original 6th circuit panel had ruled that Hamilton County must also count these disputed ballots. The two candidates in that election have been waiting a long time for a complete vote count. Thanks to Moritz for this news.
One more case of —
Do NOT trust what any bureaucrat says about anything.
Have the poll workers who said the mis-information been indicted for their intentional or negligent subversion of the right to vote ???
ONE of these centuries VOTERS will come FIRST in the U.S.A.
See the various British election disasters (esp. the now infamous 2007 Scotland election disaster) with VOTERS now getting FIRST major attention — regardless of anything else – bureaucrats, incumbents, etc.