Ned Foley Explains What’s Going on the the Newly Revived Ohio Voter ID Suit

Here at Moritz. A snippet:

    The NEOHC plaintiffs are specifically asking for a preliminary injunction that would require the Secretary of State to do more to mandate uniform standards for the evaluation of provisional ballots throughout Ohio. In essence, given that the Consent Order applicable in 2006, the plaintiffs are asking for something equivalent, or perhaps even more specific in light of evidence that emerged from 2006 concerning variations among Ohio’s 88 counties in the rates at which they deemed provisional ballots to be eligible for counting…. The Secretary of State and the Attorney General are opposing the request for a preliminary injunction. …They say that adequately uniform and specific standards have been put in place for the counting of provisional ballots across Ohio. Therefore, they argue, there is no risk of a Bush v. Gore violation in this counting process. In a reply, the plaintiffs say that will show at tomorrow’s hearing evidence of county variation in the procedures used to evaluate provisional ballots (and not just the data of different rates of disqualifying them), claiming that this variation constitutes a Bush v. Gore violation

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