One Man One Vote: Early Voting Under Threat in Ohio

148 views · Published 31 July 2012 · 2:30 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: ACLU · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism

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In response to record turnouts in the 2008 election, more than 30 states across the country passed measures to make it harder for Americans — particularly African-Americans, the elderly, students and people with disabilities — to exercise their most fundamental right. Ohio's law would cut the state's early voting period in half. More than a million-and-a-half Ohioans voted early in 2008, roughly 30-percent of all ballots cast in the state.

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