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simoom8/03/2012 10:32:45 am PDT

Another entry in real headlines vs Fox headlines:

ABC / Yahoo: Obama Campaign Sues to Extend Ohio Early Voting

President Obama’s re-election campaign has filed suit in federal court to block a Republican-sponsored Ohio law that mandates an end to early, in-person voting a full three days before Election Day this fall.

“The last three days of Early Vote are especially important to ensuring a free and fair election,” Obama’s Ohio campaign said in a statement. “We are moving forward in the fight to reinstate the last 3 days of Early Voting and ensure that all Ohio voters can make their voices heard this November.”

CNN: Obama campaign sues over Ohio’s cutoff date for early voting

The provision allowing the end of the three-day window first passed under an omnibus election reform law in 2011. Voters grew upset with other provisions in that law, so the legislature drafted a new bill to repeal that law in May before voters could vote on the measure in a scheduled referendum this November.

However, the new law passed in May retained the three-day window ban, prompting complaints from Democrats.

Opponents, [Secretary of State Jon Husted] said, don’t want an “accountability system,” one that “requires some level of personal responsibility to take initiative to get to the polls” or request an absentee ballot.

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Fox Nation: Report: Obama Campaign Sues To Restrict Military Voting

Brietart.com: Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting

Apparently you can restrict Military voting, not by effecting their voting options one iota, but by restoring the last 3 days of early voting to non-military voters (military voters never lost those 3 days). ///

h/t Balloon Juice