felons from voting. what is being done about that? we re seeing a new wave of laws making it harder to cast a ballot. 2011 to 2013, big wave of laws, started to die down in 14 through 16. since the election, another onslaught of laws making it harder for people to vote. some sense looks like folks are seeing that the 2016 electorate looked one way, want to try to lock that into place with laws that prevent demographic shifts happening in this country from changing voting patterns. the wisconsin gerrymandering case isn t the only case the supreme court announced they re taking on voting in the last month. they re taking a voter purge case from ohio, an aclu case. john hue stead. this is a practice in ohio, they initiate purging from voting if you didn t vote during a two-year period. more than half americans don t vote. talking a lot of people. 7500 people would have been
ohio s republican secretary of state john ustilled said today he will ask the u.s. supreme court to appeal the federal court decision allowing early voting in the three days before the election. he called the ruling quote, an unprecedented intrusion into how states run elections. imagine that. ahead of an election who wants fewer days for early voting. ohio expanded these voting days after the election of 2004 when voting was a mess with long lines, people getting shut out. in 2008 things went much more smoothly with the new, longer hours in place. in this close election john hue stead has been pulling out all the stops. they know how important it is to
the republican candidate are staying open extra hours on weekends and saturdays so their voters can cast early voters. in that same year, cuyahoga and franklin counties went for democrat barack obama by 60% or more, but election offices in those two predominantly democratic counties will be limited. it will be open to you in ohio if you re likely to be a republican voter, but not if you re likely to be a democratic voter. the ohio press is now getting all over this. the new report in the toledo blade called for a new poll tax and back door voter suppression, and john hue stead facing that kind of pressure is telling the columbus dispatch he s considering establishing standardized early voting hours across the state, the same in every county. this is after he personally intervened as secretary of state to make sure the democratic counties would have fewer hours. now he s thinking about
the voters backed john mccain. this year, both counties, the biggest two in ohio to go for the republican candidate are staying open extra hours on weekends and saturdays so their voters can cast early voters. in that same year, cuyahoga and franklin counties went for democrat barack obama by 60% or more, but election offices in those two predominantly democratic counties will be limited. it will be open to you in ohio if you re likely to be a republican voter, but not if you re likely to be a democratic voter. the ohio press is now getting all over this. the new report in the toledo blade called for a new poll tax and back door voter suppression, and john hue stead facing that kind of pressure is telling the columbus dispatch he s considering establishing standardized early voting hours across the state, the same in every county. this is after he personally intervened as secretary of state to make sure the democratic counties would have fewer hours. now he s thinking about reversing i
dispatch explained it this weekend. four years ago, more than 60% of the voters backed john mccain. this year, both counties, the biggest two in ohio to go for the republican candidate are staying open extra hours on weekends and saturdays so their voters can cast early voters. in that same year, cuyahoga and franklin counties went for democrat barack obama by 60% or more, but election offices in those two predominantly democratic counties will be limited. it will be open to you in ohio if you re likely to be a republican voter, but not if you re likely to be a democratic voter. the ohio press is now getting all over this. the new report in the toledo blade called for a new poll tax and back door voter suppression, and john hue stead facing that kind of pressure is telling the columbus dispatch he s considering establishing standardized early voting hours across the state, the same in