Hundreds voted early; Democrats' efforts apparent (Ohio)

[Bill McBlueState]

Source: Cincinnati Enquirer

Just a day after three court decisions cleared a path, voters swarmed elections board offices Tuesday in Greater Cincinnati to start the state's new 36-day-long polling season.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled Tuesday against the Ohio Republican Party's appeal of a disputed early-voting window that allows voters to register and vote on the same day.

The panel denied the GOP request that ballots cast during a weeklong period be segregated from other ballots. Monday, the party lost a bid to stop same-day registration and voting.

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Ohio has allowed limited absentee-voting for many years, but since 2005, voters have not had to give a reason to receive an absentee ballot and cast a vote either by mail or in person. The shift in law opened the floodgates for voters seeking to avoid long lines or other Election Day complications.

Read more: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20081001/NEWS0106/810010303

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Get out and vote early if you can!

[sickinohio]

1. I'll be going out to vote later today also.

I also encouraged my two children that are Obama supporters to go out today and vote (but not my republican child). I hope they do, I will remind them again tomorrow if they don't go today.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Happy to see there are 3 judges that Rove could not buy.