Ohio Governor Signs Law to Repeal Voting Law Changes.

[elleng]

Source: nyt/reuters

Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich signed a bill on Tuesday reversing a contentious voting law that Democrats have called a blatant attempt at voter repression, in a move aimed at pre-empting a threatened repeal referendum.

The bill rolled back a law passed last year barring counties from mailing unsolicited absentee ballots to voters and removing a requirement that poll workers assist voters they knew were voting in the wrong location.

But the measure stopped short of reversing a related measure that eliminated in-person voting on the three days immediately preceding an election, as Democrats want.

Ohio's Republican leadership has worried that a referendum on the voting law would drive Democratic-leaning voters to the polls in greater numbers in the November election, which they fear could benefit President Barack Obama in a key swing state.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/05/15/us/politics/15reuters-usa-voterlaw-ohio.html?hp

[savalez]

1. Reversing a voter repression law as a way to suppress votes.

That's a first.

[Sherman A1]

2. The level to which these folks will stoop

continues to amaze.............

[leftyohiolib]

3. a first it may be but he's not doing it b/c he sees the light

[savalez]

5. Oh I know.

That's what I said in my post, albeit in as few words as possible. To elaborate, he thinks that more Democratic voters will show up at the polls if he doesn't repeal a law designed to repress their votes. Crazy stuff.

[mac56]

4. Further proof that Republicans can't win a fair fight.

As if further proof was even necessary.

They know that if every citizen was empowered to vote, the GOP would never win another election.

[peace13]

6. This is the same guy , who days after being elected said that you were either on his bus or under it

And he hasn't stopped for one minute. The referendum to repeal this law would have been a draw to the polls for Liberals. Now that he realizes this he tries to remove his crappy legislation. He has no shame. By the time he is finished with this state the profit from state liquor sales will be in the hands of a private agency, the state will be riddled with fracking poison and that is just the tip of the ice burg.