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COLUMBUS, Ohio President Obamas reelection campaign filed a federal lawsuit against Ohios top elections official Tuesday in a dispute over the battleground states law that restricts in-person early voting in the three days leading up to Election Day.
The lawsuit, filed in Columbus, follows a series of election-law changes that were passed by the states Republican-controlled legislature and signed by Gov. John Kasich (R).
Obamas campaign and other Democrats argue that the law unfairly ends in-person early voting for most Ohioans on the Friday evening before the Tuesday election while allowing military and overseas voters to cast ballots in person until Monday.
Before the changes to the law, local election boards had the discretion to set their own hours for such voting on the days before the election. And in-person voting on the weekend varied among the states 88 counties.
The states elections chief, Secretary of State Jon Husted, has argued that all counties should have the same early-voting hours and be open on the same days. Husted and his fellow Republicans contend it is unfair that a voter in one county can cast an early ballot on a day when a voter in a neighboring county cannot.
Obama for America was joined in the lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party.
read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-campaign-sues-ohio-over-early-voting/2012/07/18/gJQAZlFNtW_print.html
ananda
(28,858 posts)... so where are the lawsuits against Voter ID laws?
bigtree
(85,986 posts). . .but you know that Justice invalidated the voter id laws in NC and Texas. I wouldn't assume that the absence of a lawsuit right now means an absence of action.