A Federal Judge has ruled voter challengers can not be deployed by any party or group in this year's election. This ruling coming at this late hour just adds more confusion to a confusing situation. I think overall this is the best way to run an election, but the timing is not good to really make it come true for the whole state.
What this does is put an increased burden on the county BOE's who will then get piles of challenges of every voter possible under law, but they were going to get that anyway, so in the big picture, I think this will make the polls go smother. That was after all the purpose. Ken Blackwell should be supporting this ruling. Will the AG try to appeal it today? The Ohio GOP stated in the article that they will appeal.
The mess is beginning to take form. Ground is being set for court challenges come Wednesday.
This story now is the Top Story on Yahoo. It is going to be a new turner.
UPDATE: A second Judge has ruled to ban the challengers.
UPDATE #2: Here is a copy Dlott's ruling (PDF).
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