Thread by @DavidPepper

BREAKING: After Ohio’s Sec. of State refused to abide by the declaratory judgment from yesterday, the Franklin County Court just ORDERED him to do so:

“The Preliminary Injunction now issued by this court is as follows:
The Secretary of State, his agents, employees...”

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“....attorneys and all those persons in active concert or participation with him who receive actual notice of this order, must immediately cease enforcing the limitation of one absentee ballot drop box per county set out in the Secretary’s August 12, 2020 Directive 2020-16..”

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“...or any variant of that Directive imposing any arbitrary limitation on the number or location of secure drop boxes that individual county boards of election may employ for the November 3, 2020 general election

Further, the Secretary shall not issue any new Directive or..”

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“...restriction to boards of elections which circumvent this order, or prevent individual boards from considering and adopting arrangements other than drop boxes that a board concludes are secure and appropriate to enhance absentee voting in their individual county....”

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To be clear, if LaRose does appeal, there will be a stay.

But we are thrilled to have once again shown that multiple drop boxes are allowed, and that LaRose violated the law with his arbitrary ban.

We call on him to follow through on his many public statements that he....

...simply wanted assurance of legal authority to expand drop boxes, and he would act.

Not to do so goes back on commitments he made repeatedly.

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