Lynn Brown is an 80-year-old Democrat from Cleveland who’s been voting since she was 18. But when she tried to do so in March, she had a problem she’d never experienced. Brown, who typically votes absentee,

A federal court in Ohio struck down part of a state law that puts limits on who may assist a disabled voter with casting an absentee ballot.

The law made it a felony for anyone who is not an election official or mail carrier to possess or return the absentee ballot of a disabled voter unless the person helping the voter fell with a specific relative.