Bullshit........We have a growing population and the GOP is cutting back on polling stations.
Guess you haven't read the Constitution either.
Judge Watson of the Southern District of Ohio, is a republican appointee having been moved for confirmation by Senator DeWine and Senator Voinovich and named to the bench by baby bush.
he is well respected. he obviously believed the intent of the legislation was to suppress minority voting and, in fact said, in his decision:
"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," Watson said in a 120-page opinion.
The legislature's stated justifications for the cutback — reducing fraud, trimming costs, avoiding voter confusion — were weak, said Watson, former chief counsel to Republican Gov. Bob Taft. Watson ordered Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and Attorney General Mike DeWine — the defendants in the case — to stop enforcing the shortened voting period."
Judge rules Ohio voter rights violated
so, since you clearly don't understand the issue, or misplaced *your* copy of the constitution, the issue is not whether voting should happen on one day. it is about whether the restrictions unfairly burden a particular group of voters in violation of the equal protection clause.
Judge Watson, a republican, clearly felt that the justification given by the republican state legislature was subterfuge..... you know, like the texas law that tried to keep women from their right to reproductive choice. it's something the right likes doing.
