Businesses (Public & Private), Schools, etc. closed to participate in an event that is more American than "apple pie". An event that assures we remain a DEMOCRACY!!

J. Edgar is the disgraced former director of the FBI. His misdeeds are legendary as are his violations of civil and Constitutional rights. It is a national disgrace and embarrassment that his name remains on the FBI Building in our nation's capitol. This petition is to encourage members of Congress to pass legislation removing J.Edgar Hoover's name from the FBI Building.

For months, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has personally acted to restrict early voting in counties with large Democratic populations—casting tie-breaking votes to limit voting to weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in urban areas like Franklin County, where in previous elections 82% of early voters did so on nights or weekends. Now, Secretary of State Husted said he is considering limiting early voting hours across the state in the run-up to the November election, and will "be listening to local boards of elections' concerns on this issue." We need to let local Boards of Elections across Ohio know that Ohioans support giving all registered voters equal opportunity to exercise their right to vote.

Voter ID laws are a new form of Poll tax that requires eligible voters to in effect pay a fee to vote. Please think about this and if you agree pass this message along to your state and federal representatives.

According to an article in the August 14 "Plain Dealer", Ohio's Sec. of State Husted is considering restricting voting hours all over our state to between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., exactly when most of us are working to earn a living. What is happening to our democratic way of life, for which thousands have given their lives, when public officials are actually trying to limit voting hours and therefore our voting rights?

This is about keeping marriages and a entire family together. There need family time in the Federal Prision System the state has it in place. It is affecting me i have a cousin in federal that we can only visit on assigned days but no family time permitted i also have a very good friend also in federal prison....

Some states are requiring a State ID for Americans to vote and this is a new "Poll Tax" and a blatant violation of the Voters Rights

Antonio Goldmon, inmate L2050 in the Mississippi Department of Correction, did not have an attorney appointed to him by the courts in the United States Circuit Court, Greenville Division when he went before Magistrate David Sanders in May 2012. ACLU, attorneys would not take the case. Two private attorneys in Mississippi would not take the case. This young man was stabbed by 14 inmates when a CO named Ruthie Moore, open cell doors to top tier and allowed bottom tier out on this young man. The truth o the matter is that this young man did not have any severe scars on him when he entered into the MDOC in 2004. Antonio Goldmon, died from internal bleeding, and revived by medical professionals at Clarksdale Community in Clarksdale, MS.

There are many people in this country who don't know that we have yet to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, which would automatically guarantee equal rights for the women of the United States. The ERA would make wage discrimination illegal. The ERA would put women on an equal footing in every area, and eliminate the need for stopgap legislation. Equal treatment of women must become the law of the land. Women in this country are still not legally the equal of men; we have fewer rights than gay men, black, white, red and yellow men. The time has come to support your mothers, sisters, wives, friends and lovers. Let's get the ERA passed.

As a pre-operation transgender woman living on Social Security Disability, I realize that the Social Security Administration's requirement that, in order to get one's gender changed one must have sexual reassignment surgery, is definitely outdated! on My Connecticut Driver's License, only a statement on letterhead from a licensed MD or Psychologist is needed for this!

Ohio has in effect had an early voting schedule . Secretary of State Husted has restricted some counties hours to 8 to 5. These hours don't allow all to vote due to some people's work schedules. Tell Secretary Husted to allow all Ohioans a time to vote.

I am a single white female that works and pays her own bills. I am a survivor of breast cancer and if anything happened again to me, Id be broke. Please attack these claims in a classy way. The way you always do. But please do it. All of a sudden, Mr. Romney understands me or anyone else who is in my postion? Shame on him.