Soulless Secretary of State targets those Voting While Black

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http://columbusfreepress.com/article/soulless-secretary-state-targets-those-voting-while-black

Bob Bites Back
by Bob Fitrakis

Under the absurd guise of “fairness,” Ohio Secretary of State Husted announced statewide uniform times for early voting for the 2014 fall general election. Unlike in past elections, there will be no early voting on Sundays. The Republicans who dominate Ohio politics, like Jon Husted, are targeting black, poor, elderly and young voters for disenfranchisement. Just like “Driving While Black” (DWB) has become a well-known acronym, so it is joined by “Voting While Black” (VWB).

Husted is not a born-again fundamentalist acting on old-time “day of rest” principles in barring a Sabbath voting day. Rather, he’s prohibiting it because black preachers have urged their congregations to vote on Sundays after church services.

These well-known “Souls to the Polls” crusades should be applauded in a democratic society. Instead, Husted and his Republican Inane Clown Posse close down voting at the times most convenient for voters. Another tactic they use is so blatantly ridiculous that it needs little rebuttal. They will open only one Voting Center in each county and they call it “equality.” How is it equal that a county like Vinton, with a population of 13,329, gets the same number of early voting centers as Franklin County with 1.196 million people?