[EL] Ohio voting hours

Tue Oct 16 12:16:14 PDT 2012

The voting hours on the three days before the election seem short, but
does anyone remember what they were in 2008?  Perhaps they were the
same.

John Shockley
Political Science
Augsburg College

>>> Rick Hasen  10/16/12 2:00 PM >>>

                                         What About the Other,          
     More Important Ohio Voting Case?                                   
  Posted on              October 16,                  2012 11:58 am by  
           Rick                  Hasen 
                          The state of Ohio still has not announced
whether it                  will appeal further in the other Ohio       
        voting case, involving wrong precinct ballots.  This is         
      by far a                  more important case in terms of the
consequences                for the election.
              I had expected the state would appeal here (even though   
            Husted himself did not join in the appeal of the wrong      
         precinct portion of the case in the lower court).  But         
      after today’s                  unanimous ejection of Ohio’s early
voting position                by the Supreme Court, I’m not sure what
they will do.                 Ohio had a stronger argument in the early
voting case on                equal protection grounds than they’d have
in the wrong                precinct case.  But because this is more
consequential,                potentially outcome determinative in Ohio,
there will be                partisan pressures to appeal.
              Stay tuned.

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    On 10/16/12 10:46 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:

                              UPDATE:  Husted has issued a           
directive 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?

        Posted            in election            administration, Supreme
Court, The Voting Wars,          voting  | Comments Off 
      On 10/16/12 10:37 AM, Rick Hasen        wrote:

                      Breaking News: Supreme Court            Rejects
Ohio Emergency Stay on Early Voting          Posted on October 16, 2012 
            10:34 am by Rick Hasen        
                  Without any noted dissent (thus answering Ned         
    Foley’s prayers), the Supreme Court has              rejected Ohio’s
application for an emergency stay*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 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,            AP.            
More to come.

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Supreme Court,            The Voting Wars,            voting  | Comments
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