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This is the kind of thing that makes us proud of our court system in America:
CINCINNATI (AP) – A federal appeals court ruled Saturday that provisional ballots Ohio voters cast outside their own precincts should not be counted, throwing out a lower-court decision that said such ballots are valid as long as they are cast in the correct county.
As you may recall, a district court judge in Ohio had recently ruled that voters could vote in precincts other than those in which they were registered:
In a victory for the Democrats, a federal judge ruled Thursday that Ohio voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Election Day can still cast ballots as long as they are in the county where they are registered.
This absurdity would invite voter fraud by voting more than one time per individual, in multiple precincts. It’s nonsensical on the face of it. And god bless the federal appeals court in Cincinnati for reasonably so noting.
In few other nations would such things be so responsibly reviewed and corrected. We really deserve to be proud of ourselves in this country.
And I want to praise the Democrats for their responsible behavior here as well. They have chosen not to appeal the decision of the federal appeals court:
Ohio Democrats on Saturday night decided not to file an appeal in the case, one of the first major tests of how such ballots will be handled in a close election.
It would be a great good to this country for both parties to continue to exercise restraint in involving the courts in such matters.
