Jon Husted, Ohio Secretary of State, complicit in new GOP scheme to rig voting in state

Jon Husted, Ohio's Secretary of State, has been
personally intervening to ensure longer voting hours
and extra days in Republican-leaning Ohio counties.

In 2004, after disenfranchising more voters (170,000) via long lines than Bush's margin of victory in the state, Ohio passed a law enabling early voting — as many as 35 days before the election.
     In 2008, Barack Obama won Ohio.
     Now, Republicans in Ohio have sliced off the last three days of early voting (they tried to eliminate 24, but failed) in order to cut Democratic turnout fueled by last-minute Sunday "souls-to-the-polls" initiatives at Black churches.
     But they've also done something even more outrageous: Republicans in Ohio's County Election Boards have been voting to allow extended hours and weekend hours in GOP-leaning counties (Democrats have gone along with this) but voting AGAINST extended days and hours in Democrat-leaning counties.
     Since boards are equally divided, Ohio's Secretary of State, Jon Husted, has been breaking the ties by voting, in county after county, with Republicans conspiring in this state-wide scheme.

Guest E.J. Dionne, appearing on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show:

Republicans, where they have control, are trying to make it harder for Democratic groups to vote... We passed a great law in our country in 1965 called the Voting Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act was designed to tear down illegitimate barriers to voting, particularly for African Americans, and what's happening in this election year — Ohio is an excellent example — is, I think, the most fundamental attack on the right to vote in the country since the Voting Rights Act was passed... This thing that's happening in Ohio is so blatant... I cannot believe this would stand the scrutiny of any fair-minded judge.

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