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TroyD

(4,551 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:57 PM Sep 2012

Ohio Secretary of State apologizes for trying to stifle early voting

Apologizes? I'd like to see Secretaries of State who try to suppress voting (eg. Katharine Harris in 2000, Ken Blackwell in 2004) in JAIL.

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Friday, September 7, 2012 16:03 EDT

Ohio Secretary of State John Husted said in court documents filed Friday that he’s really, really sorry for refusing to allow early voting preparations in Ohio, and promises not to do it again unless another court gives him permission.

That was the result of Judge Peter C. Economus’s ruling Friday, which concluded a hearing that saw Sec. Husted rebuked by attorneys for the Obama campaign in a stinging victory over Republican voter suppression efforts.

“Plaintiffs will suffer irreparable injury if in-person early voting is not restored the last three days before Election Day, and there is no definitive evidence before the Court that elections boards will be tremendously burdened,” Judge Economus wrote. “Certainly, the public interest is served by restoring in person early voting to all Ohio voters.” He added that letting all Ohioans have access to early voting meets the standard of keeping voting “uniform, accessible for all, fair, and secure.”


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/07/ohio-secretary-of-state-apologizes-for-trying-to-stifle-early-voting/
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FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
3. Didn't Mike DeWine, the Ohio Attorney General, didn't he file an appeal to this order?
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:04 PM
Sep 2012

So, this is an empty apology. Say one thing but do the complete opposite behind closed doors.

TroyD

(4,551 posts)
5. The right to vote should be the same in every state
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:02 PM
Sep 2012

Individual states should not be allowed to control people's voting rights.

Secretaries of State should not be allowed to be in control of the elections process.

They are partisan political individuals with their own agendas.

It should be run by an independent elections agency, like it is in other countries.

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)
6. Allowing State Secretaries to Run Elections is Like
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:15 PM
Sep 2012

Allowing the team that wins the Super Bowl one year to make and enforce rules for the entire following football season.

Setsuna1972

(332 posts)
7. he's only sorry because the Federal judge called his ass out on it
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:24 PM
Sep 2012

Dude had NO intention of obeying the ruling, but once he was ordered back in court,"Oops, yes sir I'll do what you've told me to earlier..."

I'd like for this Federal judge to make his ass work at one of the polling stations he was trying so hard to suppress

 

chase48

(41 posts)
8. Voter suppression
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:25 PM
Sep 2012

They will not take defeat easily, you watch the road blocks they will throw, next thing they will do is to take out most of the voting machines from the precencts make long lines have to wait to vote and many not getting to vote as they did in Ohio to Sen Kerry in 2004 and that kept Kerry from becoming president and making Bush the disaster that followed and that guy was black that kept the black voter's from their right to vote, just another form of Jim Crow from an unkle Tom

longship

(40,416 posts)
10. Husted will now appear on the 13th as ordered
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:13 PM
Sep 2012

much more contrite, with hat in hand, and and wearing a fresh pair of Depends. (I am sure he soiled the ones he was wearing when he was served the judge's last order.

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