Raw Story: President Obama’s re-election campaign, along with the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party, have sued Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted seeking to restore voting on the weekend before the presidential election, The Columbus Dispatch reports.
The suit, filed in federal court, seeks to reverse state Senate Bill 295, which only allows military personnel and their dependents to vote on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before Election Day.
“Rather than protecting the right to vote, we’ve seen brazen attempts to undermine it,” DNC political director Patrick Gaspard told Politico. “It’s a cynical ploy.”
As The Cleveland Plain-Dealer reported last week, Husted’s vote broke a tie between members of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on whether to open board offices on the last two Saturdays and Sundays in October for voting.
The Plain-Dealer also noted that Husted made his vote without the usual step of waiting for board members to submit written arguments.
“I cannot create unequal access from one county board to another, but I must also keep in mind the resources available to each county,” Husted wrote in a letter to elections board director Jane Platten. “The reality is that local boards are operating under tight budget constraints on a day-to-day basis under their normal business hours. There is sufficient time already available during the Cuyahoga County board’s regular business hours for the casting of absent voters’ ballots in person.”
Unreal. So Republicans spend 30 years deliberately destroying the tax base and now they're saying we have to restrict voting because we can't afford it. These people are a cancer to our democracy. They have no business in government.
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