SCOTUS Won’t Halt Ohio Voting Constraints

Refusing to jump into the fray just a week before the presidential election, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to halt Ohio’s 2014 changes to provisional and absentee voting.

Thousands of “indisputably eligible voters will be disenfranchised in the upcoming presidential election” challengers to Ohio’s 2014 provisional and absentee voting rules told the high court in their request to halt the changes.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a tight race in the Buckeye State, which has been a bellwether state for decades.

Challengers to the laws asked the high court to put a lower court ruling largely upholding the ...