If Justice Elena Kagan wants help in figuring out whether the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold lower court rulings that allows Ohioans to begin early voting on Tuesday, she can take advice from a pair of elections experts from Ohio State University’s law school who have blogged on the dispute.
Unfortunately, they come to pretty much opposite conclusions in the controversy over whether the state legislature, under a bill signed by Gov. John Kasich, and a directive from Secretary of State Jon Husted violated the constitutional rights of minority and poor voters by reducing early voting periods those groups prefer.