effectively extend the evening hours, even though the hours, as the secretary approved, are less than we saw in 2008 and the real anger this time is over the loss of weekend hours. those were very popular last time. as you mentioned, nearly 93,000 people statewide in the final weekend cast votes in 2008. very predominantly for barack obama. and they won t be allowed to vote that last weekend this year, is that right? there is a federal lawsuit in which the obama campaign is trying to restore those 72 hours which were removed by a state legislation. we ll be hearing something on that, and there are some who say, don t be surprised if you see another lawsuit trying to do something about the absence of weekend hours earlier in october. governor, let me go back to you. this jusshows politics is hardball, and if one side has an advantage in the legislature, like they do in pennsylvania, where i grew up, or your state of ohio, they re going to use it. the republicans are basically
postal service and others do their job so that envelope ebnd up in the counting room. isn t there also a black church tradition of going to vote after church? there really is. there was a meeting in cincinnati today, at the hamilton county board of elections even though it had little to discuss after the secretary s directive yesterday, but nearly 200 people jammed in to that meeting and there were a number of black ministers who said, you can cut back the hou s s but i guarantee you we re going to bring the buses down to the boards of election. you re going to see us no matter how compressed the timetable is. so they re going to stand at the closed doors and try to vote? well, the extended hours that the secretary announced yesterday during the first three weeks of october will keep boards of election open until 5:00 and final two weeks before the election until 7:00. the law is if you re in line at 6:59 p.m., you can have 1,000 people in line. those 1,000 will be counted. so