State ex rel. Parrott v. Brunner

{¶ 1} This is an expedited election action for a writ of prohibition and other writ to prevent respondent, the secretary of state, from enforcing — for the March 4, 2008 primary election — her directive requiring boards of elections to provide an optical-scan ballot to any elector who requests the ballot in lieu of casting a ballot using a direct-recording electronic voting machine. Because relators’ claims are not cognizable in prohibition or in an other writ pursuant to R.C. 2503.40, we deny the writs.

{¶ 2} On January 2, 2008, the respondent, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, issued…