Marc Elias, chief counsel for Hillary's campaign helping in Ohio suit for voting rights.... [View all]

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Good to see this! I despise Ture the truth--they are a sleazy tea bagger group who caused lots of problems during and after the Scott Walker recall in Wisconsin.


http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ohio-hit-lawsuit-over-gop-passed-voting-restrictions


Ohio hit with federal lawsuit over GOP voting restrictions


05/12/15 03:05 PM—Updated 05/12/15 04:00 PM

By Zachary Roth


.....Helping to bring the case is Marc Elias, a veteran Democratic election lawyer who serves as chief counsel to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican and a defendant in the lawsuit, has seized on Elias’ involvement to frame it as a Clinton-backed political scheme.

“I suspect Mrs. Clinton’s attorney may have filed his suit in the wrong state as Ohio has ample early voting hours,” Husted said in a statement Monday. “Perhaps he intended to sue Hillary’s home state of New York where they have no early voting days or hours. … Mrs. Clinton’s political associates are simply intending to interject chaos into Ohio’s nationally recognized voting system.”

True the Vote, a tea party linked group that supports restrictive voting rules, sent out a fundraising appeal Tuesday warning that “Hillary Clinton’s attorney” had filed suit over Ohio’s voting rules, and adding: “The stage is being set right now for a 2016 ballot box battle unlike anything we’ve ever seen.”

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In an email to msnbc, Elias rejected the implication that the lawsuit is a political ploy.

“My firm and I have brought many lawsuits throughout the country to vindicate the right to vote,” Elias wrote. “Our lawsuit is on behalf to the plaintiffs listed in the complaint. It is unfortunate that Secretary Husted chose to respond with a political attack rather than working to remedy the problems identified in our suit....................