Dan – I agree with you all the way. Due to time constraints I haven’t written much about Ohio (and I’m here), but I do believe the DVI can be gotten around. There appears to be interest in the legislature, but I don’t know how much. It has been clear from the beginning that the legislature at this the doesn’t want to deal with voiding DVs, thanks to Leg Services. Once that DV got its toe in the door in 1996, it became impossible for Ohio, under the current circumstances to become a free state. We’ve got a legal agreement between the state and anonymous individuals. It’s a crime. (Each closed state is a crime, but states like Ohio, particularly so.) I agree with you that within the next few years, where a handful of unlucky bastards are denied access and everybody else isn’t, is going to make the state a laughing stock. Same for Washington State which strangely has had a DV on the books since the 1990s, but was only asserted for the first time last year–4 times. Gee, what can that be about. (snark!) Unfortunately many deformers feel that something is better than nothing and continue to pimp compromised bill as “something.” We can always go back later and pick up the left behinds, which so far, has never happened. All I can say is that there’s a lot of naivete and denial out there.