This Week In Voter Suppression

(I stole the title from Melissa Harris Perry, but it was stolen with the utmost respect.  So please don't sue me, MHP.  And my topic is actually from last week, not this week.)

Here in Ohio, Republicans tried to justify their cut-backs in early voting opportunities by touting the supposed importance of "uniformity".  Could have achieved uniformity with expanded early voting hours, but no, they insisted on protecting us from non-existent fraud by slashing hours, not adding them.  Among the casualties were the three days just before Election Day.

Except the R's preserved those three voting days for military personnel, while eliminating them for everyone else.  That Saturday-Sunday-Monday was very popular with lots of in-person voters, especially black churches with their "souls to the polls" efforts.  Not to get stereotypical, but that demographic tends to vote Democratic.  And military tends to vote Republican.  What a coincidence.

U.S. District Court Judge Peter Economus said it was more than just a coincidence and issued a permanent court order restoring the three day early voting period.  Atta boy, Judge!

The GOP can't even cheat properly.