Still of limited benefit in SW Ohio since there are so few early voting sites and none of them are near public transport. But at least for those with wheels this should be a welcome relief.
Some good news.
To be fair, absentee voting in Ohio is really easy. You can apply for an absentee ballot online and they will mail it out to you. Then you can mail it back in. It doesn’t solve everything, but people who don’t have cars can vote early. I’ve often wondered why the Democratic Party doesn’t do more to push this part of earl voting.
Obviously this hurts Bernie Sanders.
Would be good if the Clinton camp could get some credit for this.
Decisions like this are likely to live now that Scalia doesn’t. He basically gave the green light to any voter suppression effort that couldn’t be proved to have been motivated primarily by discriminatory aims.
Decisions like this are likely to live now that Scalia doesn’t.
Ouch.
It was my pleasure.
He said, based on expert testimony and anecdotal evidence, that African-Americans bore a disproportionate burden, because they tend to vote in person during Golden Week at a “significantly higher rate than other voters.”
It was the failure of the lawyers in the Indiana case to build this record in the trial court, rather than argue it as a self-evident fact, that got us into this mess in the first place.
Also, note who appointed this Judge. Some honest people slipped through the Regent U. filter.
Thwarted in their efforts to block early voting, the Republicans will no doubt redouble their efforts to block all voting on election day.
Those pesky voters screw up everything.
What a different country this would be — a true shining beacon on democracy— if Republicans devoted as much time and effort toward devising a way for more people to vote.
I guess that’s their problem. Oh well, lights out.
Republicans are content for some other country to be the shining example of democracy. I always thought my country would be the world’s best.
More judicial rulings like this one, please. Let’s destroy the GOP myth of “rampant voter fraud.” Voter fraud means voting Democratic to these crooks. I’m happy to participate in such “fraud.”
My mother-in-law lives in Dayton, the typical picture for the general election, is that in the white neighborhoods voting is a breeze, and in the black ones voters have to line up for hours. And if you get unlucky, they have to bear it in pouring rain.