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Sarantou v. Lucas County Board of Elections

Case Information

Date Filed: December 13, 2010
State: Ohio
Issues: Election 2010, Provisional Ballots
Courts that Heard this Case: Lucas County Court of Common Pleas (Case CI0201008257)

Issue:

Whether provisional ballots in a county commissioner's race were correctly counted.

Status:

Petition filed 12/13/10.

Trial Court Documents

Verified Election Contest Petition Under (R.C. 3515.08) with Application for Assignment of Visiting Judge (filed 12/13/10)
Order setting hearing for January 3, 2011 (entered 12/13/10)
Order setting pretrial for December 20, 2010 (entered 12/17/10)
Order rescheduling hearing for January 10, 2011 (entered 12/20/10)
Motion for a Protective Order of the Lucas County Board of Election (filed 12/22/10)

Commentary

Gerrymandering as Viewpoint Discrimination: A "Functional Equivalence" Test

Edward B. Foley

A First Amendment test for identifying when a map is functionally equivalent to a facially discriminatory statute.

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In the News

This is why US election ballots routinely go missing

Professor Dan Tokaji was quoted in USA Today about the prevalence of missing election ballots.

"Most of the time, it just goes unreported because it doesn't affect the result," Tokaji said.

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Info & Analysis

Supreme Court Finds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims to be Non-Justiciable Political Questions

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on Thursday determining that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. The opinion resolved disputes originating in North Carolina and Maryland, in the cases of Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek.

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