COLUMBUS —
A federal judge in Ohio ordered the state’s elections chief on Wednesday to appear at a court hearing scheduled for next week on the swing state’s early voting rules.
The order comes after attorneys for President Barack Obama’s campaign urged the judge in court filings earlier Wednesday to enforce his ruling that gives all voters the option of casting their ballot in person during the three days before Election Day.
Ohio is among 32 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allow voters to cast early ballots in person without having to give reasons.
U.S. District Judge Peter Economus in Columbus has scheduled a hearing for Sept. 13 on the Obama campaign’s motion and ordered Secretary of State Jon Husted to show up.
At issue is a part of the state’s law that cuts off early voting for most residents on the Friday evening before a Tuesday election. The law makes an exception for military personnel and Ohio voters living overseas.
Economus issued a ruling last week, concluding that the state’s law was unconstitutional in changing the in-person early voting deadline and that the state was wrongly valuing certain votes above others.
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