'Supporters of President Obama in Ohio, a key battleground state, have scored what is seen as a significant victory for maximizing Democratic voter turnout ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
Obama campaign volunteers and a coalition of Democratic-aligned advocacy organizations gathered more than 318,000 signatures to effectively block new Republican-sponsored voting restrictions from taking effect through the next year, the groups announced today.
“It’s a victory for organizing,” said Brian Rothenberg, who led the fight against the new rules.
A law signed by Republican Gov. John Kasich in July would have shortened by two weeks the early voting period by mail and in-person, eliminated early voting in the three days before the election, and ceased automatic mailing of absentee ballots to all registered voters in the state’s largest counties, among other measures.
Those changes to voting rules will now be put directly before Ohioans in a ballot measure, assuming at least 231,000 petitions are first certified by the secretary of state. The deadline for the signatures was Friday.'
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/obama-supporters-score-early-victory-in-ohio/
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