Columbus Ohio GOP Chair Opposes More Early Voting, Saying It Helps African-Americans

[Bill USA]

http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/columbus-ohio-gop-chair-opposes-more-early-voting-saying-it-helps-african-americans?akid=9243.263688.TqDJ2S&rd=1&src=newsletter696110&t=3

The battle for voting rights in 2012 is getting nastier and growing far beyond the fight over whether specific state-issued ID is needed to get into a polling place voting booth.

In Franklin County, Ohio, where Columbus is located, Doug Priese, the GOP County Chairman and a county Board of Election (BOE) member, explained his recent BOE vote against expanded weekend early voting hours in November, by saying he didn’t want to make it easier for Democratic Party organizers to turn out the African-American vote.

“I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine,” Preisse said, in The Columbus Dispatch. “Let’s be fair and reasonable.”

The article continued, “He called claims of unfairness by Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern and others “bullshit. Quote me!”

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I guess the Ohio GOP worry they might come in second to the Pennsylvania GOP in voter suppression.

[elleng]

1. Something like that, Bill.

Gotta get some Federal courts involved.