Federal court ruling to address dispute over counting provisional ballots in Ohio’s presidential election

Chuck Crow, The Plain DealerA federal judge this summer will decide whether Ohio should count certain defective provisional ballots.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal court ruling this summer will decide the constitutionality of Ohio laws for counting provisional ballots, and whether some of those ballots — thousands of them, potentially — should be counted in this fall’s presidential election.

The case revolves around a 2010 legal agreement, called a consent decree, that ensures certain defective provisional ballots would be counted if a poll worker’s

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