Tim Reed has noted the controversy over the provisional ballots in Ohio. This article from the Columbus Dispatch makes clear that Ken Blackwell has on the one hand appealed judge Carr's ruling on the provisional ballots to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, while on the other the secretary of state has ruled that a person using a provisional ballot has to sign an affidavit that he understands he is voting in the wrong district and that his vote may not count. The Democrats are calling Blackwell's ruling "astonishing." What is astonishing to me is that some Democrats, encouraged by the elite media, are calling into question the whole legal process of voting, in effect, the whole constitutional structure. I enjoy policy disagreements, but they are now close to calling for a kind of democracy by the general will, rather than self-government and the responsibility and accountability on the part of the voters that that entails. They are playing with fire. I hope the 6th Circuit sees this for what it is.
