Ohio court rules for McCain on Absentee ballots

[raysr]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/02/ohio_court_rules_for_mccain-pa.html If this is old news please delete.

[BlooInBloo]

1. On the surface at least, it sounds like a pretty minimal victory.

[Believing Is Art]

2. Much ado about nothing

The guidelines on applications for absentee ballots and the ballots themselves are pretty clear. When I got my first application, the county clerk had misspelled my middle name. Luckily, it's a small town and she sent me another one with just my middle initial to avoid any confusion. Otherwise, I would have been disqualified for something that wasn't even my mistake. That's just the way it is. Someone screws up one of those forms - the voter or the officials - and it doesn't count.

On the other hand, I don't like seeing voters disqualified for such a small thing. I don't quite get the McCain camp's math though. How does "more than 3,500" automatically mean "tens of thousands?" I suppose tens of thousands is more than 3,500 . . . but still . . . bit of a leap.

[EFerrari]

3. Here's the snip:

Ohio Court Rules for McCain-Palin on Absentee Ballots

Updated 5:35 p.m.
By Mary Pat Flaherty
The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that disputed absentee ballot applications mailed to state voters by the McCain-Palin campaign should be accepted by local elections officials and directed State Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to reverse her position that boards reject them.

The decision was one of several issued this week by state and federal courts over procedures that affect Ohio's early voting process.

The case was brought by two Republican voters against Brunner, a Democrat, and had become the focus of partisan wrangling in the heavily contested state.

The applications at issue in Thursday's case contain a checkbox that appears on the forms -- in addition to a signature line -- for voters to state that they are qualified to vote and request an absentee ballot. The McCain camp mailed 1 million of the forms in Ohio.