“Ohio Early Voting Cutbacks Disenfranchise Minority Voters”

Ari Berman on the cutback in early voting hours in Democratic, but not Republican, counties in Ohio. Interestingly, Ohio SOS Husted, who has praised uniform rules, and insisted that all Ohio voters, and not just those from Democratic counties (where local election officials were prepared to foot the bill) had to get absentee ballot applications in the name of equal protection.  But unequal voting periods is not an equal protection violation?  What gives?

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