The Columbus Dispatch offers this report, which begins: “An appeals court ruled yesterday that a federal judge erred in determining that Franklin County’s disputed provisional ballots can be counted. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the issue involves state law — not federal — and it sent the case back to the Ohio Supreme Court, where it started. The unanimous ruling was made by Judges Jeffrey S. Sutton, Cornelia G. Kennedy and David W. McKeague.”