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· 10/30/2023

Acevedo Ramirez, Mariel v. Lugo Rosario, Adam

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the “right to vote includes the right to have one’s vote counted on equal terms with others”
  • recognizing 269 right-place/wrong-precinct ballots in the November 2010 election for Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge
  • concluding disparate treatment of voters resulted “not from a ‘narrowly drawn state interest of compelling importance,’ but instead from local misapplication of state law” (quoting Crawford, 553 U.S. at 190)
  • explaining that intentional discrimination need not be shown to establish an equal protection violation regarding an arbitrary method of counting provisional ballots because “a showing of intentional discrimination has not been required in these cases”
  • explaining that intentional discrimination need not be shown to establish an equal protection violation regarding an arbitrary method of counting provisional ballots because “a showing of intentional discrimination has not been required in these cases”
  • expressing “substantial constitutional concerns regarding [Ohio’s] invalidation of votes cast in the wrong precinct due solely to poll-worker error”

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