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Related: About this forumGOP Official: Ohio Early Voting Process Should Not Accommodate Black Voters
The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/19/2012 3:54 pm
An Ohio GOP election official who voted against the weekend voting rules that enabled thousands to cast ballots in the 2008 election said Sunday that he did not think that the state's early voting procedures should accommodate African-Americans.
"I guess I really actually feel we shouldnt contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine," Doug Priesse said in an email to the Columbus Dispatch Sunday. "Let's be fair and reasonable."
"I guess I really actually feel we shouldnt contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine," Doug Priesse said in an email to the Columbus Dispatch Sunday. "Let's be fair and reasonable."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/19/doug-priesse-ohio-early-voting-_n_1807434.html
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GOP Official: Ohio Early Voting Process Should Not Accommodate Black Voters (Original Post)
TroyD
Aug 2012
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. How can Obama not say something about this?
Just wondering.
I expect this will be the last of it, though.
Sigh! What Bullshista!
zbdent
(35,392 posts)2. I wonder if the "liberally-biased media" Columbus Dispatch
will put this in print ...
TroyD
(4,551 posts)3. Don't forget what the former Florida GOP Chairman admitted:
