Last-Minute Ohio Directive Could Trash Legal Votes And Swing The Election

[BlueStreak]

80. OK. Thank you for that explanation

But that still leaves us in the situation where we don't know ON ELECTION DAY whether or not he court is going to take action to overcome "malicious obedience" on the part of a biased poll worker. And such malicious obedience is clearly the desire of the SoS. That is the only possible reason for his issuing the directive in the first place. It is clearly just another attempt to try to shave votes.

I take your point that this might be affect a relatively small number of ballots, but really, that is not justification for ignoring it. I don't accept an argument that a little election fraud is OK because we really need to focus on the big election fraud. No amount of systematic election fraud is acceptable.

My reading of the directive is not as you stated it. It says clearly that the election boards -- which are controlled by the SoS in every case -- can start examining provisional ballots on Wednesday and they -- not the court -- will make their own judgments about whether to discard a ballot or not -- and that is by a vote where Republicans always have the majority because the SoS is authorized to break ties.

Yes, assuming they don't destroy the ballots on the spot, the court can come back two weeks later and require them to change their decisions, but this is no way to run an election. The court should issue its ruling today or Wednesday at the latest, not two weeks from now.