Ohio, Pennsylvania Voter Rules Face Judges’ Scrutiny
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Ohio Republican officials urged a U.S. appeals court to overturn a decision barring the state from disqualifying provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct.
A lower-court judge in August ruled that such ballots can’t be thrown out if they’re filed in the wrong precinct as a result of poll-worker error. The law doesn’t disenfranchise voters and allows officials to monitor the progress of an election, Fred Nelson, an attorney for the state, said yesterday at a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.