We recently reported in our blog that a Republican-controlled panel in Ohio had voted to keep Sec. of State Ken Blackwell's (who is running for governor) controversial new voter-registration regulations. In response, a coalition of groups is filing a lawsuit for an injunction on the new rule. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The suit will request an injunction, claiming a reform law passed by the General Assembly last year, followed by rules Blackwell's office drafted, have all but ended the groups' voter-registration activities in Ohio. "At this point, the effects are chilling," said Donita Judge, a staff attorney at the Advancement Project, a Washington-based voter-education group, and co-counsel in the suit being filed in Cleveland. "It's just killed voter registration," she added, resulting in an all-but-certain "dilution of the minority vote."