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Politifact Rates Mitt Romney Claim That Obama Is Trying To Restrict Military Voting FALSE
After some Ohio voters faced hours-long lines at polling places during the 2004 presidential election, the state adopted reforms designed to prevent similar problems in the future. Those reforms included allowing voters to cast ballots at county boards of elections for an extended period before elections. In 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign used those new laws to its advantage. The campaign made particular use of voting the Sunday before elections in Ohio and other states as African-American churches organized "Souls to the Polls" events that took congregants to vote after religious services.
Republicans who control Ohio’s state government passed a law last year that would have reduced the time frame for early voting from five weeks to three, eliminated most weekend voting hours and dropped a requirement that poll workers redirect voters to the correct precinct if they show up at the wrong one in a location that hosts multiple precincts. Ohio legislators repealed that law when it became clear it would face a referendum this year, though its ban on early voting on the weekend before elections remained in place because it was part of a separate law. Democrats including U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown say Republicans wanted to eliminate that weekend’s early voting to cut turnout among African-Americans who vote after church, a demographic likely to vote for Obama. Brown said that in 2008, up to 19 percent of Ohio voters cast their ballots during the weekend before the election.
Last month, President Obama’s re-election campaign filed a lawsuit against Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to demand that in-person voting be allowed during the three-day weekend before elections. It noted that approximately 93,000 Ohioans voted in the three days before the 2008 presidential election. The lawsuit argues that all Ohio voters should be permitted to cast ballots that weekend, as members of the U.S. military are permitted to do. The complaint alleged that Ohio’s legislature failed to justify the disparate treatment between military and nonmilitary voters, and contended the "unequal burden on the fundamental right to vote violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution."
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"Plaintiffs seek to restore for all voters access to early voting through the Monday before Election Day," the Obama campaign’s brief said. "Neither the substance of its Equal Protection claim, nor the relief requested, challenges the legislature’s authority to make appropriate accommodation, including early voting during the period in question, for military voters, their spouses or dependents. The question before the Court is whether, in the circumstances of this case, the State of Ohio may arbitrarily and without justification withdraw from all other Ohio eligible voters the same right they previously had to vote the weekend and Monday before election day."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2012/aug/06/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-lawsuit-filed-president-obamas-ca/
Romney even though numerous Media have debunked his claim as well as snopes, still has not taken down his FB post. In fact his campaign doubled down on it in a release just yesterday . This liar is seeking to incite outrage and pander to those who would be outraged at anyone trying to restrict the military vote. It's shameful to use the Military this way.
This all coming from the candidate who:
Refuses to release his income taxes, when there is all sorts of legitimate questions about his business dealings that the public has a right to evaluate in full. Obama has released 11 years of taxes. Where are yours Mitt?
Outsources American jobs to foreign countries like China and India.
Hides Money in foreign countries to avoid paying taxes like most hard working Americans pay.
Embarrasses the country by going overseas on his "tour" as the presumptive GOP nominee, in every country he visits by committing gaffe after gaffe.
This man is a shady character who doesn't deserve to be President of the United States.
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I'm getting confused because another thread is trashing them over the Harry Reid stuff.
she is a born again fundie and I have caught her a couple of times posting things without researching them. She completely dislikes Dems because they support the right to choose. So anything she can find to make them look bad she latches onto.
I posted the link from politifact ... 
I know she must be getting tired of me calling her on her posts...but someone has to do it.
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