Unfair early voting in Ohio

[WestVillage]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 9:58am

According to Rachel Maddow last night, early voting places in Ohio counties that lean Republican will be open more hours than counties that lean Democrat, specifically nights and weekends in addition to daytime hours. Basically, Ohio, a major swing state, is giving Repubs more opportunities for early voting than Dems. So much for equality.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 10:44am

Yeah, she's been covering this for a couple of days now. I'm hoping that the nation wide attention this is getting makes that idiot reverse his decision. Otherwise, I hope they sue his ass off.

[WestVillage]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 10:58am

Is this practice even legal?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 11:02am

Technically yes since his job is to be a tiebreaker vote but this is so blatantly bias that I'm curious if they're able to take it to court to challenge it.

[romantico]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 11:03am

Will they act before November or will it be the first thing on their 'to do list' come 2013?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 11:06am

Will who act?

[romantico]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 11:08am

The Democrats.Can't they keep their voting places open longer as well? If any laws are being broken(and it sounds pretty shady to me) I would think some local Democrats would look into the matter.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 11:15am

I don't think they can legally just decide to keep them open just "because". I know that democrats in those counties are PISSED though, so hopefully they'll do something about it or are already in the process of that.

I'm really happy we're seeing something that we haven't seen in a long time. And that's Democrats with balls. It seems our party has decided that they can't just sit back and hope the bullies stop being mean and has decided to get in the ring and fight the good fight. So we'll see..

[tazber]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 11:19am

It seems that the legality of various events is more and more easily subverted through (questionable and unscrupulous) loopholes.

And that actually seems to be true for both sides.

[wonkit]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 12:46pm

And of course Rachel Maddow is such a pillar of good reportage...

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 1:03pm

Uh, yeah. She is.

[Yawper]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 1:32pm

Sometimes she is. Often she goes off about stuff when she doesn't have sufficient info. That happens a lot when all the media pundits are totally disconnected from the regions they're spouting off about.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 1:39pm

lol

[romantico]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 2:20pm

lol

[Yawper]

Posted: 8/10/12 at 10:24pm

btw the State of Ohio doesn't set local voting hours - the counties each have their own Boards of Elections that set polling hours.

Ohio also mails an absentee ballot application to every registered voter in the state.