| Subject: news update 3 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/2/2004, 5:38 PM |
| To: election-law |
Any sense of the lines at the polling places now? I'd appreciate
hearing reports via e-mail. UPDATE: Don't bother e-mailing. See
Democrats
ask court to make last-minute paper ballots available; Long lines of
voters in Franklin, Knox counties; Bush makes Election Day visit.
OSU is reporting
(6:29 pm entry) that a lawsuit has been filed to require the Ohio
Secretary of State to promulgate uniform standards for counting
provisional ballots lest he run afoul of equal protection standards of Bush
v. Gore.
With some leaked exit polls showing only a 1% difference between the
candidates, this could potentially be a central suit in any
post-election Ohio litigation.
The complaint is here. If granted, it would delay the counting of absentee ballots in Philadephia until Friday.
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