Dems Respond to Husted Decision to Fight Early Voting

 Obama for America released the following statement from General Counsel Bob Bauer in reaction to the Ohio Secretary of State seeking an appeal of the 6^th Circuit Court decision:

"There is no justification for the state’s arbitrary actions this year in trying to deny the vast majority of its voters access to open polling places for the last three days before the election. This has been the unanimous conclusion of the courts that have considered this case. 

"The Secretary of State has now chosen to extend the litigation and to ask the United States Supreme Court to intervene just four weeks before the election.  We have no reason to believe that he will meet with any more success now than before.  

"It is a shame that the Secretary would not have committed his office's energy instead to implementing the outstanding court orders and administering the orderly and effective early voting process that has served Ohio voters so well since 2005."