Ohio voters who want to cast their ballots the weekend before Election Day will face no restrictions.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday decided against issuing an order that would have ended the early voting period before the first weekend in November, NBC News reported.
President Barack Obama's campaign pushed for voters to be able to hit the polls and won an appeal in the the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block a law that would have limited the period.
Ohio Secretary of State John Husted refused to enforce the appellate court decision, but the U.S. Supreme Court came down with a one-line decision against the Republican-backed effort to limit early voting.
"The application for stay presented to Justice [Elena] Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied," the order reads.
The Sunday before elections proved to be key in Obama's Ohio victory four years ago, particularly for African Americans, according to the Huffington Post.
"We had buses at every church that Sunday," Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church of Cleveland Rev. Theophilus Caviness told HuffPost. "As soon as we left church, we got on the bus and went down to vote."
The Obama campaign expressed pleasure with Tuesday's decision to several media outlets.
"This action from the highest court in the land marks the end of the road in our fight to ensure open voting this year for all Ohioans, including military, veterans, and overseas voters,” campaign general counsel Bob Bauer told the New York Daily News.
You wanna back that steaming pile of stupidity up -- for once? Or do you prefer to just sound as uneducated as you constantly portray yourself?
But I don't expect many people on here to pay attention (see James Thomas. IT's more convenient to keep their head up their backside)
You care to back that up. You and Jean can both take turns seeing what you can pull out of your uneducated, right-wing backside. Yeah, I'll wait.
My husbands work schedule doesn't allow him to get to the polls on Tuesday's so he always utilizes his early voting rights. Shocking right?? An EMPLOYED, WHITE MALE voting early, who would have thought? No doubt his intentions are questionable, at the very least he must be an evil democrat (he's not). The talking points on both sides of this issue are tired and lame.
The Anti-Alinsky's boss just informed The Anti-Alinsky that insurance premiums will be going up 12% next year! 12%!!! If this is change we can count on maybe The Anti-Alinsky should move to a less restrictive country, like Russia!
Did you get to vote or not?
It will be okay. Obama promised jobs. If not, you can keep getting checks and a free cell phone until it runs out.