Supreme Court not intervening in Hamilton County judge race

CINCINNATI - The U.S. Supreme Court will not immediately intervene in a disputed election for a juvenile court judgeship in Ohio.

The court yesterday denied a request by the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati and the Republican candidate to stop proceedings in a federal court in Cincinnati pending a possible appeal.

Those proceedings could result in counting ballots that could swing the November election to Democrat Tracie Hunter.

Republican John Williams now leads Hunter by 23 votes out of 230,000 votes cast.

An appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that provisional ballots improperly cast because of poll worker errors should be counted. It sent the case back for argument on whether there was enough evidence of poll worker error to count some disputed ballots.