denial of early voting on weekend

We need your help to reinstate early voting and weekend voting in Ohio! To preserve our right to vote, we need to ensure everyone can before election day.

Many voters can't vote during the week, because they're working. Ohio's Republican secretary of state finally agreed to early voting, but only during the week during office hours. We're asking U.S. Rep. John Boehner to ask Secretary Husted to require boards of elections to have weekend and evening early voting hours so working people can vote.

The state of North Carolina should open an investigation into whether the Republican-backed firm Strategic Allied Consulting engaged in voter registration fraud. Strategic Allied Consulting has been accused of filing fraudulent registration forms in nearly a dozen Florida counties, and may have done the same in North Carolina.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been double-dipping, collecting his pay while pursuing a side business of writing and defending legislation against undocumented immigrants for other states.

The lead opponents of Washington marriage equality have invited Rick Santorum to help them raise money for their efforts next week. Yes, you heard that right -- Rick Santorum. This is someone who has spent his entire career insulting and degrading gays and lesbians every chance he got. Same-sex marriage? To Rick Santorum, that is literally the greatest threat to homeland security. These guys aren't moderates. They don't respect loving gay and lesbian couples and their families. They're extremists, pure and simple. They are way, way out of the mainstream. Let's tell Rick Santorum to stay home and keep his right-wing bigoted views to himself. Join us now and help us send a message before his two events next week.

Our democracy guarantees every citizens right to vote. Across the country in 40 states, the GOP controlled legislatures proposed and in many stes enacted legislation to disenfranchise voters in the fall. A majority of the laws were rebuked by the courts as was Ohio. Secretary Husted has refused to adhere to the courts ruling and in a partisan way has chosen to limit early voting by nearly 50%. This is a coordinated GOP stragedy to steal the election for Mitt Romney and disenfranchise voters who are poor, senior, and minorities and who vote by a majority democratic. As a constituent, I call on Rep. Bill Johnson to fight for our right to vote and call on Secretary Husted to reinstate early voting on weekends from now until Election Day.

This petition is about reinstating early voting on the weekends here in Ohio. We used to have this right. Secretary of State Jon Husted took it away from us. If our representative, Bob Latta, publicly calls for Husted to reinstate weekend voting, there could be a chance for reinstatement prior to Election Day.

We live in an area where there is little to no public transportation and where people do not have the luxury of having Election Day off to vote. In order to encourage widespread participation in our democratic process, we need to reinstate the weekend early voting times that have been taken away from us.

I would like Secretary Husted to reinstate early voting on weekends from now to Election Day and to add several other voting stations in Columbus, Ohio!!!!!

This petition is about early voting in Ohio and to have it extended for weekends until Voting Day on November 6. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted provided early voting, but eliminated weekends; not looking at people would work/have obligations on weekdays and can't get out and vote. That is why I am here to write this petition. Please sign and make your voice heard and your vote count!

The Republican leadership of Ohio, in a very partisan move, have restricted the early voting hours this election year to 8-5 M-F, effectively making this a useless option for most working voters. Please join me in petitioning Secretary of State Jon Husted, who is responsible for this attempt to discourage voters, to shift their staff to provide broader hours of operation. I'm almost certain that they could adjust people's schedules to allow evening and weekend voting without increasing expenses, if they were only willing to be creative instead of obstructive. It should be easy for all Ohioans to vote, not just those who are wealthy and powerful enough to choose their own daily schedules.