In Ohio, the Plain-Dealer reports that Attorney General Dewine will appeal the federal ruling that restores in-person early voting on eve of Election Day. 

DeWine said Ohio has always made exceptions for military personnel.

“Since the time of Civil War we’ve made a distinction in this country between the availability and access for people who are in the military versus the rest of us to vote. And we made that distinction because of the unique situation people in the military are in,” DeWine said. “This (law) is not anything new.”  He said he will appeal because “My job as attorney general is to defend the laws of the state of Ohio and to defend the right of the state of Ohio to set its own rules and its own laws.”

As with the provisional ballot ruling last month, this is a blatantly
political decision and judicial activism at its worse.  Disregarding
precedent and upending state law, the liberal federal judge, at the stroke of a pen, increased the early voting period for a three day period
across the state, imposing additional duties and an unfunded mandate on local and state election
officials without any authority.  Instead of striking down a law that somehow violates the equal protection laws, this federal judge created his own revised Ohio law, his own creation of a early voting period, because it must be a new constitutional right to vote early.  For everyone.  Every day.  All weekend.  

According to Wikipedia, Judge Peter C. Economus is a Clinton
appointee and he previously worked at the Ohio Legal Assistance
Association.  Therefore, there should be no surprise with the activist ruling. This is what we have all come to expect from Ohio’s federal
judges on a whole range of voting issues.

In Ohio, the Plain-Dealer reports that Attorney General Dewine will appeal the federal ruling that restores in-person early voting on eve of Election Day. 

DeWine said Ohio has always made exceptions for military personnel.

“Since the time of Civil War we’ve made a distinction in this country between the availability and access for people who are in the military versus the rest of us to vote. And we made that distinction because of the unique situation people in the military are in,” DeWine said. “This (law) is not anything new.”  He said he will appeal because “My job as attorney general is to defend the laws of the state of Ohio and to defend the right of the state of Ohio to set its own rules and its own laws.”

As with the provisional ballot ruling last month, this is a blatantly
political decision and judicial activism at its worse.  Disregarding
precedent and upending state law, the liberal federal judge, at the stroke of a pen, increased the early voting period for a three day period
across the state, imposing additional duties and an unfunded mandate on local and state election
officials without any authority.  Instead of striking down a law that somehow violates the equal protection laws, this federal judge created his own revised Ohio law, his own creation of a early voting period, because it must be a new constitutional right to vote early.  For everyone.  Every day.  All weekend.  

According to Wikipedia, Judge Peter C. Economus is a Clinton
appointee and he previously worked at the Ohio Legal Assistance
Association.  Therefore, there should be no surprise with the activist ruling. This is what we have all come to expect from Ohio’s federal
judges on a whole range of voting issues.