The Ohio Dem party did not file suit to keep the polls open longer. They
filed suit to allow those waiting in lines alleged to be 3 to 4 hours long
(they have affidavits taken from people in line in the 5 p.m. hour), asking
the court to allow them to be handed provisional or paper ballots (not sure
what that second method is supposed to accomplish). Sources tell me that the
judge was sympathetic to the argument and was going to grant it.
Also, a woman named Audrey Schoring filed suit in two counties, using Bush
vs. Gore as a precedent, argued that Blackwell and Hamilton counties (bush
country, I think) were not using a uniform standard to judge and count
provisional ballots. I’m Googling and looking up donation records right now
to see if she’s a Dem operative, or, GASP!, a GOP activist.