Early voting began in Ohio this week and it looks like The Obama's minions aren't wasting any opportunity to get the helpless to the polls. And, now, apparently you can register to vote and then vote all on the same day!
Vote Early! Vote Often!
This from Yahoo news and, as usual, all emphasis is my own:
Ohio election officials brace for early voting
By STEPHEN MAJORS, Associated Press Writer
Tue Sep 30, 4:50 AM ET
For weeks, the Ohio GOP accused the state's Democratic elections chief of interpreting early voting law to benefit her own party in a crucial swing state.
But the Republican-dominated Ohio Supreme Court decided on Monday that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner was following the law when she ruled there is a six-day window in which voters can register and vote at the same time.
The decision — also backed by two separate federal judges — means election officials are preparing for the rush of early voting Tuesday, the first day absentee ballots are accepted in advance of the Nov. 4 presidential election.
"This ruling is a victory for all Ohio voters," Brunner said in a statement.
In Cuyahoga County, the state's largest and home to Cleveland, election workers underwent two days of training last week to properly process voters who are registering and voting on the same day.
In Columbus, voters wanting to cast ballots as soon as possible on Tuesday morning had set up tents Monday night to wait in line outside the Franklin County Board of Elections. The singer John Legend encouraged voters to endorse Barack Obama at a rally on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus.
The outcome of the court battles is likely to benefit Democrats in a state that narrowly awarded President Bush re-election in 2004.
Obama's campaign has organized car pools beginning Tuesday from college campuses to early voting sites. The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless is ferrying voters from homeless shelters to polling sites in the Cleveland area. Other organizations that seek to increase poor and minority participation in elections are transporting voters from low-income neighborhoods.
The targeted voters have all traditionally had a harder time getting registered, and then getting to polling places on Election Day. Thanks to Monday's court decisions, these Democratic-leaning voters can do it all at once.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080930/ap_on_el_st_lo/ohio_early_voting_12&printer=1;_ylt=AkJbss3EpzFejeRsX1L.CPdh24cA
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