{"id":28930,"date":"2012-08-10T06:22:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/early-voting-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:24:34","slug":"early-voting-for-me-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/early-voting-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting for Me, but Not for Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm. I&#39;ll bet you there&#39;s an Equal Protection suit lurking there. Unfortunately, it wouldn&#39;t be resolved by November.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; were the Dems in GOP counties foolish to support Early Voting on principle?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsnbcmedia1.msn.com%2Fj%2FMSNBC%2FComponents%2FVideo%2F120808%2Fn_maddow_heard_120808.standard.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/video.msnbc.msn.com\/the-rachel-maddow-show\/48582101#48582101'>Ohio headed toward extra voting time for Republicans only<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVideo on msnbc.com: Rachel Maddow describes a partisan dynamic in Ohio that is having the effect of ending early voting for Democratic counties but extending voting opportunities in Republican countie&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/KbAQTUsQfgS' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm. I&#39;ll bet you there&#39;s an Equal Protection suit lurking there. Unfortunately, it wouldn&#39;t be resolved by November. So &#8230; were the Dems in GOP counties foolish to support Early Voting on principle?\u00a0 Embedded Link Ohio headed toward extra voting time for Republicans only Video on msnbc.com: Rachel Maddow describes a partisan dynamic in Ohio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/early-voting-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Voting for Me, but Not for Thee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html","url_meta":{"origin":28930,"position":0},"title":"There&#39;s more than one way to suppress a voter","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-12 9:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dragged kicking and screaming by two federal court decisions (and a rejection from SCOTUS) to reinstate rull early voting for all voters, Ohio GOP Secretary of State John Husted is playing around with the hours of early voting centers to make it more difficult to find out when voting is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29871,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/a-level-if-low-playing-field-in-ohio.html","url_meta":{"origin":28930,"position":1},"title":"A level, if low, playing field in Ohio","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Aug-12 9:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ohio's popular early voting law -- a response to major crowds and difficulty getting into vote in 2004 -- was done away with earlier this year. 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