Attorney General Holder Calls Cuts to Early Voting a ‘Step Backward’ as Restrictions Take Effect in Ohio, Elsewhere

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 6, 2014. On the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision late last month to allow Ohio’s new voting law to go into effect, Attorney General Eric Holder criticized the law’s restrictions on early voting, which he said were “heavily used” by African-American voters.

“It is a major step backward to allow these reductions to early voting to go into effect,” the Attorney General said in a video message posted on the Justice Department’s…