No Interest in Democracy

[KeithE]

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I can only conclude that the Supreme Court has no interest in a voting democracy un-influenced by ads paid for by corporations / rich people or laws written on the principle of the common good instead of by ALEC.

Sad time for America.

[William Thornton]

So, the early voting period in Ohio is reduced from 35 days to 28 days? SCOTUS didn't hear the case but merely let the elected Ohio legislature's decision stand rather than be replaced by an unelected judicial body? SCOTUS can grant cert and review the case properly if they wish.

I'm not sure the Republic can survive.

[Dave Roberts]

My faith in the Roberts' Court went South when they took down parts of the Voting Rights Act.

[Sandy]

Shouldn't the federal government, and not states, be determining how federal elections are conducted? Interesting, since this is a different perspective on elections than they took in the Citizens United ruling.

There''s only one reason that Ohio's Republican legislature wants to cut down the early voting dates. It's religious discrimination. The days they want to cut are Sundays, because large groups of church people across the state get together after church and Sunday dinner, and go vote together, upwards of a half million of them. If they were white, conservative, Protestants, they'd be expanding the number of Sundays they could vote, but most of the Sunday voters in Ohio happen to be African American. They are trying to keep Christians from voting. That's it. Shame on them!