Link to original article. (http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/19/711551/gop-election-board-member-admits-he-canceled-weekend-voting-in-ohio-to-suppress-the-black-vote/)

"Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s recent decision to prohibit early voting on nights and weekends in all districts has many concerned about the effect on voter turnout in the state, particularly among low-income and minority communities. But one Republican Party chairman is content to suppress votes among this vulnerable demographic. Doug Preisse, chairman of the Republican Party in Franklin County, which contains the city of Columbus, admitted in an email to the Columbus Dispatch that black voters would now have a more difficult time voting:

I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine. Let’s be fair and reasonable.

Preisse was one of the board of elections members who blocked Democratic efforts in Franklin County to expand voting hours to evenings and weekends. According to the Dispatch, he called claims of unfairness “bull####. Quote me!”

Preisse also served on Newt Gingrich’s leadership team in Ohio during the primary and is a top political consultant to Ohio governor John Kasich (R).

In 2008, 82 percent of early voters in Franklin County voted on nights or weekends. The Secretary of State has defended the move to cut hours across the state by pointing to his initiative sending absentee ballots to every registered voter. But according to a study by Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates, black voters and Democrats prefer to cast their ballots in person, with 13.3 percent of black Ohioans casting early ballots in 2008 compared to just 8 percent of white voters."'


These scurvy ridden Repugnicans are so afraid that President Obama will be re-elected they are doubling down on voter suppression. Sad really, they can't win on the issues.....

I would think the night and weekend voting would appeal to anyone that has a job.

I would think the night and weekend voting would appeal to anyone that has a job.

Well there you have it.

:buddies:

Voting processes shouldn't accommodate anybody more or less than another. Nobody should receive special treatment, nor have voting made easier for one person over another

Voting processes shouldn't accommodate anybody more or less than another. Nobody would cherry special treatment, or making voting easier for one person over another

Racist.
If you were sensitive you would understand that black people need special accommodations that whites don't need. Whites are smarter and more able to change their schedule and make plans than the blacks.

Black don't need to vote. Acorn fills out their ballots for them.

Racist.
If you were sensitive you would understand that black people need special accommodations that whites don't need. Whites are smarter and more able to change their schedule and make plans than the blacks.

He's not a racist, he's the most handsomest and most geniusest man you'll ever meet..

:dye:

Voting processes shouldn't accommodate anybody more or less than another. Nobody should receive special treatment, nor have voting made easier for one person over another

I'd make some accommodation for the military personell to have mail in ballots, but that's about it.

I'd make some accommodation for the military personell to have mail in ballots, but that's about it.

True, but those aren't accomodations to make it easier for them to vote moreseo than another, but gives them the ability to vote at all.

He's not a racist, he's the most handsomest and most geniusest man you'll ever meet..

:dye:

I think you are better looking than he is.

of course, thats my personal opinion.

according to a study by Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates, black voters and Democrats prefer to cast their ballots in person.....

They just want to show off their free ID cards