Early Voting to Begin on Tuesday in Ohio
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has ruled that an earlier district court ruling ordering Ohio to roll back its plans to reduce early voting is valid and thus must be enforced. The Ohio secretary of state, Jon Husted, complained about the decision, saying that legislators, not judges, should determine when voting can take place. His legal response is to ask for an en banc ruling, in which all the judges on the 6th Circuit get to vote on the case. If they agree to do this, they will have to move fast since otherwise voting will begin on Tuesday.
The issue isn't so much when voting starts but whether voting is allowed on the Sunday before election day when black churches typically charter buses to get parishioners to the polls after services. This is what Husted, a Republican, really wants to stop.I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.