Showing posts with label early voting in Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early voting in Ohio. Show all posts

Sunday, September 07, 2014

Three days of voting to be restored before Election Day in Ohio

Early voting in the three days before Election Day is back in Ohio.

U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus granted a permanent injunction yesterday preventing Secretary of State Jon Husted from restricting or eliminating voting on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before all future elections.

Democrats, who benefit from weekend voting because supporters tend to come to polls in greater numbers on those days, were overjoyed at the ruling. Republicans, meanwhile, were uniformly silent, with the exception of Husted, who issued a statement praising the decision as a victory for “uniformity and equality” in voting hours.

Read more: Three days of voting to be restored before Election Day in Ohio, federal court rules

Thursday, May 01, 2014

Ohio cuts to early voting period challenged in ACLU lawsuit

New laws and regulations in Ohio that limit early voting would suppress turnout by minorities and the poor and should be overturned, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday.

Read more: Ohio cuts to early voting period challenged in ACLU lawsuit