In Voting, Fair Is Fair

His party just recently made voting by absentee ballot more difficult and did away with same-day registration and voting.  Now, in the interest of "uniformity", Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has announced that all in-person early voting stations across the state have identical days and hours of operation:   8 to 5 Mon.-Fri., 8 to 4 Sat., no Sundays.  For many Ohio polling places, this is a reduction of both hours and days.

"Uniformity" sounds nice and fair and reasonable, doesn't it?  But since early voting times were not all that various before, and since those minor differences presented no problem at all to anyone whatsoever, what's so crucial about literal uniformity?  Why has it suddenly become the GOP's self-justifying Holy Grail?  And if literal uniformity is so friggin' important, why must it always be accomplished while reducing voter access?  Why not uniformly expand access?

Democrats say the new rule is unfair, that restricting hours is unnecessary and intentionally makes it just a little bit harder for many working people (i.e., mostly Democrats) to make it to their voting station.

Republicans say that reality is unfair . . . to Republicans.  With more registered Democrats than Republicans, with Democrats receiving far more actual votes, with white people soon to be a minority, Republicans know the only way they have a shot is by blatant gerrymandering and suppressing access to the vote, bit by bit.

C'mon!  That's fair, isn't it?