A divided Supreme Court delays early voting in Ohio

[cali]

The Supreme Court delayed the start of early voting in Ohio Monday, a day before it was scheduled to begin, temporarily blocking a victory won by voting rights groups in lower courts.

The decision has potential implications for other states, including Wisconsin, North Carolina, Texas and Arkansas, where state efforts to tighten up voting procedures are opposed by civil rights groups who say they disproportionately affect minorities.

Ohio's was the first of those cases to reach the high court, and the conservative majority blocked lower court rulings that would have jump-started early voting Tuesday.

Their action, opposed by the court's four liberal justices, reversed a federal appeals court decision that had blocked the state from reducing early voting from 35 to 28 days. The lower court also had ordered the state to restore some evening and Sunday voting that the Legislature had eliminated.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/09/29/supreme-court-ohio-voting-rights/16427069/

[yeoman6987]

1. 28 days of early voting?

I go on Election Day. Very exciting time. A week should work. Hopefully the voters in Ohio can get there to vote in the next 28 DAYS! Soon it will be 365 days. Reminds me of the Holiday season crawl.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. But both parties are the same, or so I've been told.

Monday’s order had the support of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Samuel A. Alito,, Jr., Anthony M. Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas, although their votes were not noted in the order. It would have taken five votes to support such an order.

Dissenting were Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor. They would have denied the request of the Ohio attorney general and secretary of state to postpone the decision in favor of more early voting by U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus of Columbus.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/09/early-voting-in-ohio-blocked/

Hmmm.....interesting how all the people who didn't want to block early voting were appointed by Dems....

[cali]

3. of course both parties aren't the same but you sure as shit haven't been told that by me

I have maintained that the democratic party, like the republican party, has a serious problem with corporate influence and control, and that it's not as bad as the republican party, is not a reason to ignore this endemic problem.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Did I say that you said that?

Why so defensive?

[Travis_0004]

5. Is only 28 days of early voting that bad

A lot of states have no early voting so 28 days is above average.