{"id":30673,"date":"2012-10-18T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html"},"modified":"2013-05-01T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:46:40","slug":"theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html","title":{"rendered":"There&#39;s more than one way to suppress a voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dragged kicking and screaming by two federal court decisions (and a rejection from SCOTUS) to reinstate rull early voting for <i>all<\/i> voters, Ohio GOP Secretary of State John Husted is playing around with the <i>hours<\/i> of early voting centers to make it more difficult to find out when voting is possible.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted swiftly limited early voting hours on those crucial three days to 8 am\u20132 pm on Saturday, November 3; 1\u20135 pm on Sunday, November 4; and 8 am\u20132 pm on Monday, November 5. That means Ohio voters will have a total of only sixteen hours to cast a ballot during those three days. And before the weekend before the election, Ohio voters will still not be able to cast a ballot in-person on nights or weekends.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m sure that folks who are trying to encourage and enable early voting will be letting folks know about those mish-mosh hours. I hope they are also monitoring to ensure that there are enough (working) polling machines to meet the crowds that are expected to turn out.<\/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%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fthenation%2Fads%2Fhouse%2Fsub%2FCirc_Banner5.gif' 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:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/170626\/another-loss-voter-suppression-pre-election-early-voting-upheld-ohio#'>Another Loss for Voter Suppression: Pre-Election Early Voting Upheld in Ohio | The Nation<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe bad news? Ohio&#39;s Secretary of State swiftly limited early voting hours.\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\/X3j15fibARk' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 possible. &#39;Ohio Secretary of State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There&#39;s more than one way to suppress a voter&#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":"","_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":[106,99,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31241,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/john-husted-tries-to-become-the-new-katherine-harris.html","url_meta":{"origin":30673,"position":0},"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 &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":30673,"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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