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Kenneth Blackwell, Case No. 3:04CV7582, Page 8. http://electionlawblog.org/archives/10-20%20Order.pdf [117] Gregory Korte and Jim Siegel, "Defiant Blackwell Rips Judge; Secretary Says He'd go to Jail Before Rewriting Ballot Memo," Cincinnati Enquirer, October 22, 2004. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/22/loc_blackwell22.html [118] Sandusky County Democratic Party v. Blackwell, (N.D. Ohio), (6th Cir. 2004). [119]Tokaji, pg. 1231 [120] "Judge, Blackwell, Spar Over Provisional Ballots," The Associated Press, October 20, 2004. [121] In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Western Division, The League of Women Voters of Ohio, et al. v. J. Kenneth Blackwell, Case No. 3:04 CV 7622 http://www.moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/docs/lowv/doc15a.pdf [122] David G. Savage, Richard B. 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