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

by Gary Kopycinski on October 6, 2014

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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.