A lawsuit, filed in Ohio's Southern District U.S. Court last Wednesday, is challenging that state's "increasingly popular absentee ballot system of voting," a Dayton Daily News article Friday morning said.
"Voters are subjected to different rules depending on which county they live in, violating the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, attorneys for the four southern Ohio plaintiffs, all Republicans, argue in the lawsuit, asking District Judge Susan Dlott in Cincinnati to require all 88 counties to follow the same procedures for mailing and processing absentee ballots." The lawsuit also notes that some Ohio counties mail applications for absentee ballots to all voters, while others don't, the article said, and that some counties, such as Montgomery County, prepay the postage for voters to mail back their absentee ballot application while others do not. ( Complaint )
Although plaintiffs filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to prevent county boards of elections from mailing out ballots, the article indicated that some board of elections, including Hamilton County's, have already their mailed ballot applications.
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