Ohio Dominion Voting Machines Purchase Case Hinges on Grammar

A dispute between an Ohio county’s elections board and a conservative group over the former’s purchase of Dominion Voting Systems Corp. equipment that has reached the state’s highest court may hinge on grammar rules.

Ohio Supreme Court justices, in the case between Look Ahead America and the Stark County Board of Elections, were particularly interested Wednesday in the sentence structure of the statute at issue.

The statute lists three reasons why a board may go into private session—a purchase, a sale, and the sale or disposal of unneeded or obsolete items. At the end of the sentence, it says private ...