Early Voting Shouldn't Accommodate Black Voters?
Author: William Boardman
Published: 23 Aug, 2012
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Updated: 13 Oct, 2022●
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An Ohio GOP Board of Elections official who opposed early weekend voting in 2008 says early voting procedures shouldn't accommodate African-Americans.
"I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read African-American -- voter-turnout machine," Doug Priesse said in an email to the Columbus DispatchSunday. "Let's be fair and reasonable."
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