Appeals Court Upholds Early Voting Ruling, S.O.S. To Appeal Again

Ohio's elections chief says he wants the full appellate court to review a federal judge's ruling that expands the swing state's voting schedule this fall. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the order on Wednesday. In a Sept. 4 decision, U.S. District Judge Peter Economus temporarily blocked an Ohio law trimming early voting and ordered Secretary of State Jon Husted to set additional times, including evening hours. The order moved the start of early voting to Tuesday instead of Oct. 7. Husted says elected officials and not federal judges should be making Ohio law. Voting rights groups and others had claimed the law and another early voting measure would make it difficult for residents to vote and disproportionately affect low-income and black voters.