http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/11/08/voter-suppression-and-manipulation-in-ohio/Even as working Ohioans are ready to vote “No” today on Issue 2, which would repeal S.B. 5, the bill signed by Gov. John Kasich that takes away the right of public employees to bargain for a middle-class life, the right wing has been hard at work. They are not only ginning up their own base, but using deception and voter-suppression legislation to game the outcome.
On Friday, writes John Nichols at The Nation, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, ordered county boards of elections to “shut down early voting for…Tuesday’s election.” Earlier this year, the state legislature passed a bill that will greatly reduce early voting and will shut down Sunday voting entirely, but the law is tabled pending a referendum. So Husted appears to have taken matters into his own hands.
Sunday voting often draws a sizable Latino and African American contingent and best serves workers who can’t get time off from their jobs to vote on Tuesday.
Ohio’s voter-suppression legislation and the anti-collective-bargaining legislation—the Issue 2 referendum on which Ohioans will vote on Tuesday—stem from a common source, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, David and Charles, who also fund Americans For Prosperity.
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