Harris-Perry to OH Secretary of State: Voters won’t forget suppression attempts

Saturday morning on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” author, Tulane professor and host Melissa Harris-Perry directed this week’s weekly open letter segment to Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. In it, she addressed the partisan Republican’s attempts to eliminate early voting and lessen voter accessibility in the 2012 elections.

“Dear Secretary Husted,” she began, “It’s me, Melissa! Can I call you Jon? How are you feeling today? Still a little sore, I’d imagine. Getting beaten so badly with all that backlash had to sting a bit. It’s probably going to leave a mark.”

“After all, you’ve spent the better part of this year throwing the full force of your power as Secretary of State into restricting the right of some Ohioans to vote and on Tuesday,” she said, “it boomeranged bang upside your head somethin’ fierce.”

Harris-Perry went on to explain how when Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), Republican state legislators and Husted tried to shut down early voting the weekend before the election, a time when a great number of African-American and working voters were known to vote, the Obama campaign sued the state of Ohio to have those hours restored and won.

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