Obama Campaign Sues to Disenfranchise Military Voters

By: Paula Bolyard (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 11:30 AM  | 

[promoted from the diaries as part of the Ambitious Writer's Program] On paper, the lawsuit is filed in federal court as Obama for America v. Husted. If you read the content of the complaint, it should actually be called Obama v. the U.S. Troops. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday: “Obama for America, the U.S. president’s re-election campaign committee, sued two Ohio officials over changes to state law | Read More »

Ohio’s stalled voter ID law- vote on Tuesday

By: Paula Bolyard (Diary)  |  September 27th at 02:49 AM  | 

In March the Ohio House passed HB 159, which introduced reasonable reforms to secure Ohio’s election process, one of which was to require a photo ID in order to vote in person. Parts of the bill were passed into law in June. However,  the GOP-controlled senate and Republican Secretary of State, Jon Husted, balked at the photo ID requirement and it’s been held up in | Read More »