{"id":29871,"date":"2012-08-16T21:56:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T03:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/a-level-if-low-playing-field-in-ohio.html"},"modified":"2012-08-16T21:56:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T03:56:41","slug":"a-level-if-low-playing-field-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/a-level-if-low-playing-field-in-ohio.html","title":{"rendered":"A level, if low, playing field in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. Instead, individual counties were allowed to decide whether or not to allow early voting, and for what hours.<\/p>\n

And the funniest thing happened. \u00a0In Republican-leaning counties, county GOP reps sided with the Dems to allow early voting. \u00a0In Democratic-leaning counties, the GOP reps opposed the earlier hours, and the Republican Secretary of State broke the deadlock by not<\/i> approving early voting.<\/p>\n

After widespread bad publicity and protests, the Secretary of State has set uniform rules for all counties — which will allow some early voting, but with restricted hours that may impact people who work or have problems with transportation to their polling site. \u00a0But at least it will be a level playing field for both parties.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOhio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Wednesday that all 88 boards of election in the state must restrict early voting hours to weekdays. The uniform hours were decided in the wake of outcry ov…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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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. Instead, individual counties were allowed to decide whether or not to allow early voting, and for what hours. And the funniest thing happened. \u00a0In Republican-leaning counties, county GOP reps … Continue reading “A level, if low, playing field in Ohio”<\/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":"","_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-29871","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":31136,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/election-shenanigans-in-ohio.html","url_meta":{"origin":29871,"position":0},"title":"Election shenanigans in Ohio","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Nov-12 11:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd like to think I would object to these kind of tactics regardless of the partisan politics behind them. \u00a0This particular list is nothing new, but a good summary of Husted's actions this political season (though it leaves out his earlier casting deciding votes in a GOP-leaning fashion for individual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/early-voting-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","url_meta":{"origin":29871,"position":1},"title":"Early Voting for Me, but Not for Thee","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Aug-12 6:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Hmm. I'll bet you there's an Equal Protection suit lurking there. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be resolved by November.So ... 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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31241,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/john-husted-tries-to-become-the-new-katherine-harris.html","url_meta":{"origin":29871,"position":2},"title":"John Husted tries to become the new Katherine Harris","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-12 10:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Harris was the Republican\u00a0Secretary of State for Florida who played such a charming role in the 2000 recount brouhaha.Husted is the Republican Secretary of State for Ohio who's played such a charming role in the 2012 election to skew and\/or reduce early voting, mess around with voting rolls and provisional\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31127,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/waiting-to-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":29871,"position":3},"title":"Waiting to vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Nov-12 9:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"When we see long lines of folks queued up to vote in Third World nations, we applaud their civic spirit, we admire their zeal to have their voices heard, we celebrate their devotion to democracy.When it happens in Florida, the GOP secretary of state tries to figure out excuses not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html","url_meta":{"origin":29871,"position":4},"title":"There'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 "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28858,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/11\/bits-and-bobs-from-2012-08-10.html","url_meta":{"origin":29871,"position":5},"title":"Bits and Bobs from 2012-08-10","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 11-Aug-12 9:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"Serious stuff Early Voting for Me, but Not for Thee - Ohio Republicans take advantage of the Democrats in order to push extended early voting in GOP counties, not the Dems'. 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