William M. O’Neill, a former Ohio State Appeals Court judge, has filed a lawsuit against Ohio elections officials, after they determined that his petition to be on the Democratic primary ballot for Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court only has 993 valid signatures. He needed 1,000. He filed his lawsuit directly with the Ohio Supreme Court, and he is asking that the case be expedited.

O’Neill says one of the signatures invalidated is the husband of former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, and that this is just one example of sloppy petition-checking by elections officials. See this story. The primary is March 6.