Former Ohio Secretary Of State Pushing Ballot Referendum To Overturn Ohio’s Restrictive Election

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Former Ohio Secretary Of State Pushing Ballot Referendum To Overturn Ohio’s Restrictive Election Reforms
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/19/272884/former-ohio-secretary-of-state-pushing-ballot-referendum-to-overturn-ohios-restrictive-election-reforms/


Last month, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) signed into a law a series of elections reforms that shorten the state’s early voting period, ban in-person early voting on Sundays, prohibit boards of election from mailing absentee ballot requests to voters, and allows poll workers to refuse to tell voters where they can vote. Now, former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D) is leading a coalition of lawmakers, labor, church, and voting-rights groups in an effort to overturn parts of this law through ballot repeal. The coalition, Fair Elections Ohio, must collect 1,000 signatures and have its petition certified to move forward. If certified, then it will need 231,000 valid signatures by Sept. 29 in order to suspend the law until the 2012 election. “Ohio voters like choices. This starts limiting choices in terms of less time to vote, less convenient hours, less time to vote absentee,” said Brunner. “”The old adage ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’”

Effort Underway to Block Ohio’s Election Reform Law
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/21261-1

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1. Love Jennifer. Too bad the ODP elite sabotaged her senate attempt

to back an insider who couldn't even muster 40% of the vote.

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2. I remember Harry Reid

having fund raisers for Fisher....she could have beat Portman...or at least made it a much closer race.

May King Kasich eat peas.

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3. Civil Rights Leader Rep. John Lewis: ‘Voters ID Laws Are A Poll Tax’

Joining in a bicameral effort to combat the large number of voter ID bills being pushed by Republicans across the country, long-time civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) slammed these “all too common” bills as “a deliberate and systematic attempt to prevent millions of elderly voters, young voters, students, minority and low-income voters from exercising their constitutional right to engage in a democratic process.” Recounting the U.S.’ dark history of voter suppression efforts, Lewis said, “Make no mistake, voter ID laws are a poll tax.”


Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/19/273138/civil-rights-leader-rep-john-lewis-voters-id-laws-are-a-poll-tax/