An Ohio election official who had voted against the weekend voting hours that more than 200,000 Ohioans made use of during the 2008 election suggested on Sunday that he saw the extended hours as an unnecessary “contortion” of the voting process designed to benefit African-Americans. Doug Priesse, who is the…
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