Republicans and Democrats on the Hamilton County Board of Elections are split over a county prosecutor’s opinion which says dozens of voters who cast two ballots in last year’s election should be referred for potential criminal prosecution – even though the board has already exonerated most of them. Near the end of a board meeting that last three-and-a-half hours Wednesday, the two Democrats and two Republicans on the board discussed an opinion from Prosecutor Joe Deters, but decided not to actually vote on whether approximately 67 cases should be sent to the prosecutor. That will likely happen at the May 15 board meeting, and if, as is likely, it is a tie vote on party lines, the issue will be decided by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican. In most of the cases, the people who cast two ballots had mailed in an absentee ballot and then showed up at their polling places on election day and were given a provisional ballot to cast. Board of elections officials ended up
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