Legal Opinion
Ohio Ex Rel. Skaggs v. Brunner
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 25, 2008No. 08-4585PublishedCited by 226 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
On November 4, 2008, more than 27,000 voters in Franklin County cast provisional ballots in the various federal, state and local election contests. In reviewing those ballots, the Franklin County Board of Elections determined that roughly 1,000 of them have a potential defect: They do not contain the printed name or signature of the voter. That omission implicates two questions of state law. First, does Ohio law require a provisional ballot to include the name and signature of the voter in order to be eligible to be counted? See Ohio Rev.Code Ann. § 3505.183(B)(1). Second, if Ohio law…
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