In a similar article from the Toledo Blade, these things were also noted. The first is how do they know that blacks took advantage of the "golden week" 3 and a half times more often than whites?? Is this a type question on an exit poll that provides this info?
1) The judge noted that blacks took advantage of golden week 3⅓ times as often as white voters in 2008, and more than five times as often in 2012. “Based on this evidence, it is reasonable to conclude that the reduction in overall time to vote will burden the right to vote of African Americans, who use [early in-person] voting significantly more than other voters,” Judge Watson said in a 120-page opinion.
The background of how Ohio came to observe 35 days of voting.
2) Early voting in Ohio grew out of the 2004 election, when people stood in line for hours to cast ballots, particularly in heavily minority and Democratic urban areas. Thousands gave up and went home without voting. George W. Bush carried the state by 2.1 percentage points. If he had lost it, John Kerry would have become president.
Ohio Ping
An Ohio law that curtails early voting and prevents people from registering to vote and casting ballots on the same day illegally discriminates against black voters, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, ordering a crucial swing state to change its rules before the fall elections.
Impossible.
State laws are greater than any Constitutional rights, and state laws are not trumped by Constitutional rights.
States can restrict any Constitutional right in anyway that they see fit.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3433665/posts
meanwhile, people in Iraq risked being shot at, blown up, etc, to vote.
EVERY SINGLE FRAUDULENT VOTE NULLIFIES ONE AMERICAN CITIZEN’S VOTE AND PUTS A IRREPARABLE CRACK INTO THE BEDROCK OF THE REPUBLIC.
They probably had already voted three times and didn’t consider it a big deal.
Obama won by fraud vote last election.
I still to this day can’t figure out why they don’t slap photos on a voter card. It would a quick and easy fix.
Time to channel Andrew Jackson, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”
“A federal court ruling Tuesday declaring Ohio GOP lawmakers’ voting restrictions unconstitutional...”
That’s about all this judge can do - make a ruling. The state legislature can decide to back up this judicial ruling with legislation to give it the power of law, or it can tell this judge to go take a long walk off a short pier.
IOW - all States must adopt Ohio’s original voting schematic or be deemed un-Constitutional????? Sounds like a “John Roberts Ruling”.....