Federal court allows Ohio to throw out ballots with typos and small errors

This week has been rough for voters in Ohio. In the span of just two days, they have lost a full week of early voting and their only chance of same-day registration, and hundreds of thousands of still-eligible voters were denied absentee ballot applications.

A third blow fell Tuesday afternoon, when a panel of judges from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a law that allows the state to throw out absentee and provisional ballots that have errors as small as leaving out one’s middle name or zip code. The two judges who ruled to uphold the law are white and were appointed by Republican presidents. The judge who dissented is African American and was appointed by Jimmy Carter, and he blasted his colleagues for backing a policy that “dishonored the struggle for the right of the most vulnerable to vote.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/federal-court-allows-ohio-to-throw-out-ballots-with-typos-and-small-errors-57d3ec60c5cd#.j22zlmpi1