And yet another voter suppression law by the GOP has been struck down in Ohio.
A federal judge in Ohio on Friday restored early voting rights in the three days before the election, ruling in favor of the Obama campaign.
U.S. District judge Peter C. Economus ruled that "restoring in-person early voting to all Ohio voters through the Monday before Election Day does not deprive UOCAVA voters from early voting."
"Instead, and more importantly, it places all Ohio voters on equal standing," Economus ruled. He said the state "fails to articulate a precise, compelling interest in establishing the 6 p.m. Friday deadline as applied to non-UOCAVA voters and has failed to evidence any commitment to the 'exception' it rhetorically extended to UOCAVA voters."
Black GOP consultant Raynard Jackson, who has said he was “embarrassed by the lack of diversity” at the RNC, wasn’t afraid to look within for reasons the GOP has moved so far away from a place where black people feel welcome under the big tent:
“The Republican line is that the overwhelming majority of blacks will vote for Obama because he is African American … I find this thinking extremely insulting as a black Republican. The reason the majority of blacks will vote for Obama is because Republicans have not given African Americans a reason to vote for Republicans or Romney.”
South Carolina will likely be next...And now that Texas, Florida and Ohio have had theirs struck down, I would say SC is in trouble... I would imagine that the PA law will also be revisited by the courts....
