13 November, 2012

Judge slams Ohio GOP Sec. State for vote suppression - AMERICAblog

Judge slams Ohio GOP Sec. State for vote suppression - AMERICAblog: U.S. District Judge Marbley finds that Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted violated provisional voters’ substantive due process and equal-protection rights, violated a federal Consent Decree, and violated state law by–at the eleventh-hour, the Friday night before the election–shifting from poll workers to voters the statutory responsibility of recording identification information, and then directing elections boards to disenfranchise voters where the information was incomplete or missing.