Obama sues Ohio over extended early voting for military personnel.

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In a move that puts new meaning to the term battleground, President Obama's re-election campaign and members of some military groups are on a collision course over voting rights in the critical state of Ohio.

The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed a lawsuit to block a new state law allowing men and women in uniform to vote up until the Monday right before an election, while the cutoff on early voting for the rest of the public is three days earlier.

Top Obama campaign officials told Fox News in interviews that the lawsuit in no way tries to restrict the voting rights of military members. All they are trying to do is even the playing field for all voters in Ohio by allowing early voting up until Monday for everyone, including members of the military, because they believe a two-tiered, early-voting process is unfair.

"Along with the DNC and Ohio Democratic Party, this campaign filed a lawsuit to reinstate equal, early-voting rights for all Ohioans -- rights the Republican-controlled legislature arbitrarily stripped away this past year," Jim Messina, Obama's campaign manager, told supporters in an email.
However, the National Guard Association and other military groups have fired back, saying it's "offensive" for Democrats to suggest in the lawsuit it's arbitrary for service members to get special consideration.

Men and women in uniform typically get more time than other voters to send in absentee ballots since they may be serving in an overseas or domestic location that is not close to their home polling station. "I'm just outraged by this," Mike DeWine, the Republican state attorney general in Ohio, told Fox News. "I can't believe the Obama campaign and the state Democratic Party are actually saying there's no rational basis for a distinction between someone who is in the military voting and someone who is not in the military." The stakes in this legal battle are huge because Obama is anxious to keep Ohio's 18 electoral votes in the Democratic column this November. He has already visited the state nine times this year alone.

Since no Republican has won the White House without carrying the Buckeye State, GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is fighting just as hard and on Friday lashed out at the Democrats’ lawsuit. “President Obama's lawsuit claiming it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state's early voting period is an outrage," he said Saturday.
Obama campaign sues Ohio over early voting law for military | Fox News

Obviously military who are stationed overseas have the right to vote--and at times getting those mail-in ballots back into the state takes more time than the average citizen that can walk into their local precinct to vote.

There is a strategic reason for this. Obama is LOSING the military vote by 24 points to Mitt Romney--and his action--trying to disenfranchise military personnel who may be overseas--who's residency is in Ohio--from meeting the early voting deadline is an attempt to disqualify the military in Ohio from voting. Ohio is a must win state--and it's also a swing state. I couldn't live in Ohio after this--and even possibly contemplate voting to reelect Obama after this.
 
What is wrong with letting the men and women that protect us, vote.


You may lose the election if you let military personnel vote---:badgrin::badgrin:

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"When you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone they should run from"--Barack Obama
 

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