Demos: Ohio Is Depriving Late-Jailed Citizens From Exercising Constitutional Rights, Lawsuit Says
November 06, 2018
November 06, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 6 -- Demos issued the following news release:
Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Demos and the MacArthur Justice Center filed a class action lawsuit challenging Ohio's policy of disenfranchising eligible voters arrested just prior to the election and held in detention through Election Day.
Under the current system, eligible voters who are detained pretrial by the state are being unconstitutionally denied their fundamental right to vote. Ohio's dise . . .
Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Demos and the MacArthur Justice Center filed a class action lawsuit challenging Ohio's policy of disenfranchising eligible voters arrested just prior to the election and held in detention through Election Day.
Under the current system, eligible voters who are detained pretrial by the state are being unconstitutionally denied their fundamental right to vote. Ohio's dise . . .