No more 'Golden Week' for Ohio voters, court rules

[brooklynite]

Last edited Tue Aug 23, 2016, 01:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Columbus Dispatch

Ohio voters should not have a "golden week" in which they can both register to vote and cast a ballot, a federal appeals court declared today.

"Proper deference to state legislative authority requires that Ohio’s election process be allowed to proceed unhindered by the federal courts," said a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that split 2-1.

"Ohio is a national leader when it comes to early voting opportunities. The state election regulation at issue allows early in-person voting for 29 days before Election Day. This is really quite generous," the majority said.

Today's ruling overturned a decision last spring by Judge Michael Watson of U.S. District Court in Columbus. He ruled that the GOP-dominated state legislature's measure, signed by Gov. John Kasich, violated the U.S. Constitution and federal Voting Rights Act by eliminating the week of early voting, used disproportionately by minority voters.

Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/08/23/judge-reverses-golden-week-in-ohio.html

[liberal N proud]

1. The only way to beat these bastards is by gettting people registered regardless of their petty rules

Get out there and get people involved, help people get registered, help them do what ever they need to do to get to vote.

In Ohio we have until Voter Registration Ends: Deadline for voter registration for Nov. 8 general election October 11,2016 to get people registered.

http://elections.mytimetovote.com/dates/ohio.html

[vkkv]

2. God, I wish posters would stop with the sloppy, rushed and mistaken posts of copy / pasted headlines

- If you're going post something, at least do it right.. shheeeesh!


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[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. i wish posters would be nicer and less petty. nt

[barbtries]

6. ditto.

[busterbrown]

8. I’m still trying to figure out..

What was posted incorrectly? Please advise....
I’m the poster boy around here for posting screw ups..

[vkkv]

11. Brooknyte fixed it after I pointed the error out.

Thankfully.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. they were missing the letter N

[busterbrown]

17. Well those who complain about such pettiness?

Should seek out some meds..!!

[vkkv]

14. And accurate!

[brooklynite]

7. Yor concirn is nooted

[vkkv]

12. Better work in the future?

[winstars]

9. Switch to the decaf please. Brooklynite has contributed greatly to DU almost from the very beginning

Brooklynite is actively involved in day to day political activities that I only read about.

Thanks Brooklynite for your inside view that all here at DU benefit from...




And I swear, I am not just saying this having been born at Maimonides...

[vkkv]

10. Wouldn't it great if EVERY headline posted had errors in it?

Yah.. great.

[winstars]

13. DU'ers usually celebrate a milestone number of posts, (2000) with a thoughtful post...

But apparently not always...

[vkkv]

16. I call them as I see them. These post counts mean very little when so many post

virtually nothing of consequence.

Should I have alerted a Forum Host about the sloppy headline reporting?
Would that have been better?

Shouldn't we expect better than sloppy headlines here?

[winstars]

18. Yeah, posting nothing of consequence... I can see what you mean now. You are absolutely correct.

[vkkv]

19. 'Ditto' as an example...

[riversedge]

3. Whow. Jerking the voters around in OH--same as in WI. damn

[Coyotl]

4. Appeal in 3, 2, 1, ...

and then to be reinstated because the Ohio Republicans acted to discriminate against a minority group and a political party.