Ohio Secretary of State Says Restoring Early Voting Is ‘Un-American’

[Tx4obama]

Ohio Secretary of State Says Restoring Early Voting Is ‘Un-American’

During his keynote speech at an election law symposium at University of Toledo on Friday, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) claimed two recent court decisions restoring early voting on the last three days before the election was “un-American.”

Husted has sought to restrict early voting, even openly defying a court order to lift the ban on voting on the last three days before Election Day. Once the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal, Husted immediately capped voting hours at just 16 hours for the entire three day period, down from 24 hours in 2008.

At the UT symposium, Husted continued his revolt against the federal courts that restored early voting. The Toledo Blade reports:

Mr. Husted spoke of a recent federal court decision that he claimed intruded on Ohio’s ability to run its own elections and called it an “un-American approach to voting” — an opinion not shared by many who attended the symposium.

“It’s the job of the federal courts to enforce the Constitution; that includes the right to vote,” said Daniel Tokaji, a professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law who was a panelist at the symposium, after the secretary’s comments. “…We should be doing everything we can to improve access to eligible voters.”

-snip-

Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/21/1055031/ohio-secretary-of-state-says-restoring-early-voting-is-un-american/

[randr]

1. So Bush is an unAmerican President?

[FarPoint]

2. This man has no soul.

A complete embarassment for Ohio.

[zbdent]

3. Allow me to sound like a Republican/Teabagger for a moment ...

"So, Mr. Husted ... does that mean that the military, which you used in your reason for attacking Obama over restoring early-voting, are now 'Un-American', for being allowed to vote early?"

[Botany]

4. But he is a Christian Patriot

Husted is the puss from a infected blackhead.

[Marthe48]

5. And we have to live with this tool's decisions?

He is supposed to be a public servant, not a self-serving tyrant!

[calimary]

16. Well, seems to me what you have to do is make sure this asshole gets UN-elected next time

he runs again.

And then, it's not over! After that, you have to keep track of him. Watch where he goes, what he does, will he move to another state and start this shit all over again? After all, ranking anti-choicers have certainly done that. They make a success in one state, then they move, establish residency elsewhere (happened in Kansas as I recall), and start their mischief in their new state. These assholes have to be tracked. They have to be watched - to see where they go and what they do, and what they may try to run for next. Because the MAIN objective is - TO KEEP BASTARDS LIKE THIS OUT OF POWER!!!!!!

It's not enough to work until the election happens. Unfortunately, with what (and whom) we're up against, after the election is when the work REALLY begins.

We have candidates and operatives and partisans out there for whom Roe v Wade is somehow not settled law. They'll tell YOU it is. They'll tell the people covering the next Supreme Court Justice nominations. But it won't be true. And they don't care. They'll keep going after it until they've whittled it down to nothing - AS IS HAPPENING AT THIS VERY MOMENT, ACROSS THE COUNTRY, ACROSS THE BOARD. WHY ISN'T OUR SIDE DOING THAT????? WHY aren't we scheming, at every turn, at every possible near-opportunity or half-opportunity, or even the broadest-stretch-of-the-imagination sliver of an opportunity? On laws they like. Such as - the watered-down Wall Street "restrictions" and stuff that they push? Why can't we be sneaking amendments onto it or language into it that subverts it?

I'd REALLY like to see THEM caught flat-footed on something for a change, instead of it ALWAYS being us.

[reflection]

6. What a piece of subhuman crap this guy is.

Shameless.

[DCBob]

7. So restricting voter access is more American??

What a maroon.

[sheshe2]

9. Since when is it unamerican to vote?

Does Mr. Husted think that he owns Ohio??? Oh no that whould be the Koch brothers.

[DCBob]

11. The GOPers know that more voters means they are more likely to lose.

Their only hope is to try to justify restricting Democrats from voting. Its sickening.

[YvonneCa]

15. Wonder how he feels about...

...recounts. Maroon....

[Cha]

8. Fuck this UnAmerican... gopricks always accuse others of what they're

fucking doing. So damn dumb they must not think anyone notices. Think everyone's a freaking zombie who laps up their spittle.

[liberal N proud]

10. No sir, election fraud is un-american!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

12. Self serving UN-American SOB! nt

[LiberalFighter]

13. So it was unAmerican for

British citizens to revolt against England (Boston Tea Party) so they could be represented by electing their own representatives.
Not to require early American citizens to register to vote.
White landowners to pass a literacy test.

[Norbert]

14. Another way of him saying.

"Obama is kicking the shit out of Rmoney in early voting and there is nothing I can do about it."

[LiberalElite]

17. This, from one of the most un-American Americans... n/t

[vlyons]

18. What a turd!

There, I said it, and not 1 bit ashamed. Are the Dems going to run a decent candidate against this turd in 2014?

[Kteachums]

19. Is he going to be allowed to change the hours?

What can people do to make sure he isn't changing the hours. That is not right either. I will be glad when Obama wins and this thing is over but, these creeps will never shut up!

[LisaL]

20. Unfortunately, yes.

[davidpdx]

21. Send the fucker to North Korea

Then he can learn what it is like to bow down before someone. I'd bet he wouldn't find it all that much fun.

[salin]

22. .. because the idea of citizens voting is somehow antithetical

to a democracy? and dangerous.

[Third Doctor]

23. Limiting voter times and restricting access is unamerican you repug ass!