OHIO JUDGE GRANTS A TRO AGAINST THE GREENS RECOUNT EFFORT.

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County Prosecutor David Yost, the board's legal adviser, said he was pleased that Common Pleas Judge W. Duncan Whitney granted the temporary order. The board is seeking a permanent injunction to quash the recount request . . .

In the Delaware County case, the elections board wants to block a recount both before and after certification.

"To ask taxpayers to fund someone's political hobbyhorse when there's no possible chance of a different outcome seems to be an utter waste," Yost said. "There's better uses for that money in Delaware County and, I suspect, in other places around the state."

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I always thought it was a little naive to believe that the recount would be permitted.