So the SOS in Ohio has decided that NOBODY gets to vote during extended hours, 
and the Judge in PA upholding their new voting laws (Self-described by the 
Republican senate leader as designed to "Elect Romney") relies on a precedent 
that reads, in part:

"The court held that this differential treatment between Philadelphia and the 
rest of the state was constitutional because Philadelphians, simply, were bad 
people:
 ”Where population greatly abounds vice and virtue have their greatest 
extremes. A simple rural population needs no night police, and no lock-up. 
Rogues and strumpets do not nightly traverse the deserted highways of the 
farmer. Low inns, restaurants, sailors’ boarding-houses, and houses of ill fame 
do not abound in rural precincts, ready to pour out on election day their 
pestilent hordes of imported bullies and vagabonds, and to cast them multiplied 
upon the polls as voters. In large cities such things exist, and its proper 
population therefore needs greater protection, and local legislation must come 
to their relief. The freedom and equality of the ballot-box must be protected 
from the local causes which mar and destroy a free and equal election.” 60 P"

<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=38624>


 
-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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