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State's top court throws out 1,000 disputed [OH-15] ballots
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Dec 05, 2008 01:45pm |
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| News Date | Friday, December 5, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | About 1,000 disputed ballots that could decide the outcome of a hotly contested central Ohio congressional race won't be counted, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled today.
The state's highest court ordered the Franklin County Board of Elections to throw out about 1,000 provisional ballots cast in the Nov. 4 election that contained flaws such as a lack of a signature and identifying information.
The ballots could decide the outcome of two races: the 15th Congressional District, where Republican state Sen. Steve Stivers leads Democratic Franklin County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy by 594 votes, and the 19th Ohio House District, where Democrat Marian Harris holds a 40-vote lead over Republican Brad Lewis.
The congressional race is the last in the country where neither candidate has declared victory.
Vote counts have been completed in Madison and Union counties, which lie entirely within the 15th District. The district covers a little more than 40 percent of Franklin County, where 37,298 provisional, late absentee, military and overseas ballots have not been counted.
Although the dispute involved only about 1,000 of those ballots, elections officials said they could not count the others until the legal matter was resolved. |
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