Oct 9, 2012
Ohio Republicans Appeal To U.S. Supreme Court To Curtail Early Voting
From AlterNet By Steven Rosenfeld
Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State John Husted is deteremined to stop upwards of 100,000 Ohioans—many of whom are African-American churchgoers who live in the state’s cities—from voting on the Sunday before Election Day in November…
…“Secretary of State Jon Husted today announced that he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to make the final determination on whether the General Assembly of the State of Ohio or the federal courts should set Ohio election laws,” Husted’s website said. “Husted will be appealing the Friday decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Obama v. Husted.”
As we’ve previously reported, Secretary of State Husted is a former ALEC member and voter suppression legislation is a key ALEC initiative being pursued nationwide. In addition to Husted, Governor Kasich and PUCO Chairman Todd Snitchler are also ALEC alumni and working in Ohio pursuing their conservative agenda and model bills.
Read the full AlterNet article here…
