Obama - Biden --
I want to make sure you heard about the legal action our campaign recently took to protect the right to vote in Ohio, and to ask for your help.
Along with the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party, we filed a lawsuit challenging the state legislature's action denying the vast majority of Ohio voters any access to in-person early voting during the last three days before Election Day this November.
If we're successful in Ohio, we'll help restore critical voting rights there -- but this problem extends beyond just one state. What's happening in Ohio is representative of what Republican-controlled state governments in states across the country have done. In the name of fighting "voter fraud," they've passed a host of restrictions on voting rights -- including ID requirements, limitations on voter registration, and rolling back early voting periods.
Victory Counsel lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect voting rights in this election. We're looking for legal experts to help protect the rights of voters -- to enable all our citizens to participate in an election that is fair and accessible.
 Sign up to join the Victory Counsel today, and use your expertise to help make sure every eligible voter is able to exercise their right to vote in this election.  
To help address the widespread problems experienced by the state's voters in the 2004 election, the Ohio state government reached an agreement to create an early voting period. This quickly became popular -- in 2008, nearly 30 percent of all votes cast in Ohio were early votes. But one of the first things the new Republican governor and state legislature did when they came back into power last year was to eliminate this early voting period over the last weekend and Monday before Election Day -- without justification -- making it harder for most of Ohio's citizens to make their voices heard at the ballot box.
The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy; citizens shouldn't be forced by their own elected representatives to jump through hoops to exercise it. That's why we're taking this action in Ohio, and it's why -- no matter what happens in this case -- helping voters sort out new voting laws across the country is one of the most important things this campaign has to do between now and November.
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Bob
Robert F. Bauer General Counsel Obama for America
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