AlterNet offers this report, which begins: “Ohio’s Republican Party will not challenge the voter registrations of thousands of Ohioans before the 2008 election or on Election Day, a party spokesman said Wednesday in a surprising statement on the eve of this year’s deadline for notifying Ohio’s 88 county election boards of large-scale voter credential challenges.”
This is contrary to what I’ve been hearing, and it also is contrary to the Ohio Republican Party’s litigation in the Sixth Circuit, as well as the the Party’s actions: “Also Wednesday, the Ohio Republican Party said it has filed public records requests with all 88 counties for copies of forms submitted by newly registered voters, especially those who registered and cast an absentee ballot on the same day during a one-week window earlier this month.”
The litigation is now before Justice Stevens. Scotusblog links to the relevant documents in the Court and supplies analysis. See also this Washington Post report and this link rounding up my earlier coverage.