Another voter suppression law heads to court

The campaign of President Barack Obama has filed a lawsuit to block a voter suppression law in the state of Ohio. The suit asks a federal court to overturn a new voter suppression law that was passed on a party line vote by the GOP controlled legislature and was signed by Ohio's Republican Governor, John Kasich. Specifically, the new law would shorten early voting in this battleground state, cutting the last three days before election day. Under the new law only active duty military service members would be allowed to vote early in the last three days before November 6^th presidential election. In 2008, 93,000 Ohioans voted early in the last three days leading up to the presidential election.

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“The last three days of Early Vote are especially important to ensuring a free and fair election,” Obama’s Ohio campaign said in a statement to ABC News. “We are moving forward in the fight to reinstate the last 3 days of Early Voting and ensure that all Ohio voters can make their voices heard this November.” _Source

In a discussion of voter suppression laws across the nation, Michael Waldman, President of the Brennan Center for Justice, referred to Ohio as “Florida without the palm trees” on the Rachel Maddow Show on NBCNews.com.

The Obama/Biden campaign posted this statement on their campaign website: “In addition to reducing Ohioans’ access to the polls, the legislature created inequality between military voters who can cast early ballots in person through the day before the election and all other voters who only have until 6 p.m. on the Friday before the election to vote in-person absentee.” _Source

The Obama campaign was joined in the lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party.

by Brent Scott
Exe. Dir. of Vote by Mail America