[EL] Ohio

Tue Oct 16 10:46:14 PDT 2012

UPDATE:  Husted has issued a directive 
<http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/Upload/elections/directives/2012/Dir2012-50.pdf>with 
uniform early voting hours for the last three days.

Saturday, November 3, 2012 -- 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 4, 2012 -- 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday, November 5, 2012 -- 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

What time does Church end on Sunday in Ohio?

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On 10/16/12 10:37 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:
>
>
>     Breaking News: Supreme Court Rejects Ohio Emergency Stay on Early
>     Voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=41784>
>
> Posted on October 16, 2012 10:34 am 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=41784> by Rick Hasen 
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Without any noted dissent (thus answering Ned Foley's prayers 
> <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php?ID=9867>), 
> the Supreme Court has rejected Ohio's application for an emergency 
> stay 
> <http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12A338-SCt-order-10-16-12.pdf>---thus 
> insuring that the three days of early voting on the weekend before 
> election day, taken away by the Ohio legislature but restored by a 
> federal district court and affirmed by the 6th Circuit, will go forward.
>
> What explains the Court's ruling, especially given the shaky 
> constitutional reasoning <http://slate.me/QJEx8B>of the lower courts?
>
> First, it is always a high burden to get emergency relief from the 
> Court.  The Justices may not have believed that any legal error here 
> was worth correcting.  Whether the 100,000 or so voters who voted on 
> those last three days or had to shift to other days (or absentee 
> ballots) was perhaps not worth gearing up the machinery for a 
> potentially difficult constitutional issue.  The silence on the 
> meaning of /Bush v. Gore/ thus continues at the Supreme Court.
>
> More to the point, the Court conservatives, who would be most likely 
> to disagree with the lower courts' reasoning, may have decided that 
> there was not enough at stake about those last three days of early 
> voting for the Court to issue an opinion divided on party/ideological 
> lines about voting in a state which could well be pivotal in the 
> presidential election. A divided ruling would have thrust the Court to 
> the center of the election.
>
> Still, this is quite a run in the courts for those fighting Republican 
> legislative cutbacks on voting rights, at least in 2012.  And in that 
> respect I have been surprised.
>
> Early coverage from SCOTUSBlog 
> <http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/10/ohio-rebuffed-on-early-voting/>, AP 
> <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_OHIO_EARLY_VOTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>. 
> More to come.
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