Saturday, October 13, 2012

Ohio early voting

  • Obama Campaign Asks High Court to Allow Ohio Early Voting

    Ohio Republicans are seeking to cancel early voting that weekend for everyone except members of the military. A federal appeals court blocked the plan, saying it probably violated the constitutional rights of non-military voters.

    www.businessweek.com

  • Early Voting Rising

    Early voting -- both mail and in-person -- is on pace to exceed 2008 levels, when about 30 percent of all votes nationally were cast prior to Election Day.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Ohio Early Voting Ruling Appealed By John Husted, Deepening Confusion Over ...

    Earlier this week when Ohio's Secretary of State John Husted said he'd appeal a court ruling that would reinstate early voting on the last three days before Election Day, the announcement threw an already chaotic run-up to the elections into further ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Fox Lies About Military Access To Early Voting In Ohio

    Fox News completely misrepresented an Obama campaign lawsuit to expand early voting in Ohio to claim that it disenfranchised military voters in order to gain an advantage in the election.

    mediamatters.org

  • Right-Wing Media Attack Early Voting

    The legislature expanded absentee voting in Ohio after the 2004 presidential election that saw long lines, with some voters waiting up to seven hours and others giving up and going home.

    mediamatters.org

  • Ohio to appeal ruling on early voting

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's election chief said Tuesday that he will appeal a ruling by a federal court that reinstates the final three early voting days in the battleground state. Secretary of State Jon Husted is asking the US Supreme Court to decide ...

    bostonglobe.com

  • Hot Ohio heats up even more as Obama, Romney race tightens

    The Obama campaign responded Friday night with a brief of its own in the Supreme Court, arguing that SOS Husted's reasons for asking the court to stop implementation of equal weekend early voting rules for all Ohio voters in a county are "simply not ...

    www.examiner.com

  • Weekend early voting hours set

    Last month, a U.S. Court of Appeals reinstated in-person early voting in Ohio on the three days before the election ruling a 2011 Ohio law violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th amendment. That law allowed in-person early ...

    www.middletownjournal.com

  • Early voting debate continues in Ohio

    Last week the 6th Circuit Court of Ohio ruled to allow in-person early voting the three days before the election. That means some polling places will be open over the weekend.

    downtown-mtauburn.fox19.com

  • Op-ed | Early voting means Election Day is already here

    Their early voting is a triumph in states such as Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where the Republican party has meticulously worked to discourage voters by shortening early voting schedules, cutting weekend hours and slashing the number of voting days.

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • Ohio Official Will Take Early Voting Decision to Supreme Court

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio secretary of state, Jon Husted, said Tuesday that he would appeal to the Supreme Court a decision by a federal appeals court last week that sided with President Obama's campaign, allowing expanded early voting in the final ...

    thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

  • Ohio secretary of state asks Supreme Court to block early voting

    Ohio had said it planned to offer limited early voting to military families on the weekend before the election. This followed a decision by the Republican-led Legislature to cancel general early voting on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday prior to ...

    www.latimes.com

  • Ohio to Appeal Early-Voting Case to US Supreme Court

    Ohio is seeking U.S. Supreme Court review of an appellate ruling requiring all its voters to have the same amount of early voting time while letting individual boards of election decide whether that time includes the last three days before the Nov. 6 ...

    www.businessweek.com

  • Jon Husted, Ohio GOP Secretary Of State, Appealing Early Voting Decision To ...

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's election chief on Tuesday appealed a ruling that reinstates the final three early voting days in the battleground state, calling a decision last week by a federal appeals court "an unprecedented intrusion" into how states run ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Californians, Have You Voted Yet?

    Among those voting by mail this time will be your lead blogger, who will be in Columbus, Ohio, on Election Day. If you're confused about how to vote, it's worth getting some advice from the ... Of course, while it's nice to have early voting available ...

    www.nbcsandiego.com

  • Ohio asks Supreme Court to curtail early voting in state

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio's top election official asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block a federal court ruling that allows in-person, early voting in the state in the final three days before the November 6 general election. The battleground ...

    articles.chicagotribune.com

  • Ohio official calls feds early voting expansion an intrusion

    Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted is appealing to the US Supreme Court -- ironically -- to get the federal courts out of the Buckeye State voting process.

    www.foxnews.com

  • Ohio early voting dispute heads to Supreme Court

    DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Updated: Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Tuesday he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to make the final determination on whether the state General Assembly or federal courts should set Election laws.

    www.wdtn.com

  • Ohio asks Supreme Court to overturn early-voting ruling

    Ohio asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a federal appeals court's ruling that the state must allow all voters to cast ballots on the weekend before the election, not just those in the military. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • Ohio secretary of state to appeal early voting ruling to Supreme Court

    While early voting in Ohio begins 35 days ahead of Election Day (and 45 days for those in the military overseas), the Republican-controlled legislature passed a provision in May that cut off early, in-person voting at the end of the day on the Friday ...

    politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

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