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Obama for America v. Husted, filed in 2012 and decided on June 11, 2014, challenged an Ohio statute and a set of directives issued by the Ohio Secretary of State on the ground that the provisions together violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The suit alleged that the provisions discriminated between two classes of voters: on one hand, Americans serving in the military and those living overseas (together referred to as "UOCAVA voters"), and on the other, all other voters ("non-UOCAVA voters"), because the scheme allowed only UOCAVA voters, but no one else, to vote in person on the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday before Election day.

This is the seventh in a series of posts focusing on issues we will be tackling at the 2014 ACLU of Ohio biennial conference, Resist. Reclaim. Restore Your Rights!

Right here in Ohio, a company is making millions in taxpayer dollars by keeping people in prison. The longer people stays in prison, the more money they are worth. Prisons for profit are a multi-billion-dollar industry that depends on, and profits from, our national addiction to incarceration.  Handing control of prisons over to for-profit companies is a recipe for abuse, neglect, and misconduct. Private prisons create dangerous atmospheres with a severe lack of oversight, and do little to encourage rehabilitation. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the largest for-profit, private prison company in the United States. This Tennessee based company has one bottom line: money.

This post discusses HB 346, and security/privacy risks regarding enhanced IDs.

This is the sixth in a series of posts focusing on issues we will be tackling at the 2014 ACLU of Ohio biennial conference, Resist. Reclaim. Restore Your Rights!

This is the fifth in a series of posts focusing on issues we will be tackling at the 2014 ACLU of Ohio biennial conference, Resist. Reclaim. Restore Your Rights!