The election of November 2, 2010, for Juvenile Court Judge in Hamilton County, Ohio, is still unresolved, and it is now more than one year since that election. The race between Tracie Hunter and John Williams was so close, the outcome depended on whether certain provisional ballots should be counted. The case has been in the Ohio Supreme Court, and all three levels of federal court, including the U.S. Supreme Court (which refused to get involved). See this story, which says that Hamilton County, in the election of November 6, 2011, will try to make sure the same problems with provisional ballots do not arise this time.

The 2010 dispute is pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th circuit. Certain voters cast provisional ballots and were directed by polling place officials to drop them off at the wrong end of the room. The room was the location of polling places for two different precincts, and some were deposited in the box for the wrong precinct.