Ohio’s cuts to early voting discriminate against blacks and Hispanics in violation of the Voting Rights Act, a forthcoming lawsuit alleges.
The suit, to be filed Thursday in federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union, offers a chance that the controversial cuts, enacted in the nation’s most pivotal swing state, could be blocked before the November election. And it will provide the latest test of the recently weakened Voting Rights Act’s ability to stop the wave of Republican-backed voting restrictions enacted in recent years.
I have to acknowledge that Dale Ho and the ACLU voting rights team has been quite active and aggressive recently in these suits, a strategy which (at least for the time being) has borne fruit.
UPDATE: Read the complaint.
This new suit will be even tougher to win.