Ohio hit with federal lawsuit over GOP voting restrictions

[babsbunny]

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ohio-hit-lawsuit-over-gop-passed-voting-restrictions

By Zachary Roth
A new federal lawsuit charges that a series of restrictive voting procedures put in place by Ohio Republicans aim to suppress the votes of minorities, students, and other Democratic-leaning groups. In response, Ohio’s top election official is portraying the lawsuit as an effort by Hillary Clinton to gain an edge in a key 2016 swing state.

That’s a stretch – but the skirmish nonetheless is putting the fight to set voting rules for the presidential election on center stage, eighteen months before voters go to the polls.

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The suit challenges cuts to Ohio’s early voting opportunities, the elimination of same-day voter registration (known in Ohio as “Golden Week”), restrictive procedures for obtaining absentee ballots, and new rules that could lead to longer lines at the polls by reducing the number of voting machines that counties are required to have on hand. All those policies have been put in place over the last two years by Ohio’s Republican administration or its Republican-controlled legislature.

[msongs]

1. unfortunately our senior government executives are too busy trying to pass corporate written

trad pacts at the moment

[awoke_in_2003]

2. We need...

nationalized election standards and rules. This state by state thing is ripe for corruption.

[mopinko]

3. hillary trying to get an edge by making sure everyone gets to vote.

the horrors.
seems like an admission on their part.