Joseph A. Bell v. Christopher M. Marinko

OPINION

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.

Joseph Bell and six other registered voters of the Kelley’s Island voting precinct in Erie County, Ohio, whose qualifications to be registered in that precinct were challenged, appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment. We are asked to decide whether procedures of the Ohio Board of Elections contravene the National Voter Registration Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg-6 (1993), or violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because the Board’s procedures are lawful under both provisions, we…