COLUMBUS, OH – In response to recent, but not surprising, Republican mischaracterizations of Obama for America V. Husted, a lawsuit filed reinstate the last 3 days of Early Voting and ensure that all Ohio voters can make their voices heard this November, Obama for America Truth Team Member and Lt. Col and Air Force Pilot John Boccieri released the following statement:
“From the very beginning, this lawsuit explicitly stated support for military and overseas voters and their right to vote early through the weekend and Monday before the election. Not only did we state this clearly to the court, we also today filed a response supporting the military organizations’ motion to intervene and welcoming these organizations to this fight. Yet while we fight to ensure all Ohioans can vote for the final three days of early voting, as they were all allowed to do in 2008, we are seeing a complete mischaracterization by some Republicans regarding what this case is truly about. This is about restoring equal and fair access to early voting and in no way asks for restrictions to voting. Anything said otherwise is completely false. Period. And as a member of the American Legion and a lifetime member of the AMVETS, I find these claims outrageous.”
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As a newly retired 20-yr Army Veteran and an alumnus of Ohio University, I question the motivation of these military groups, especially the Association of the United States Army, of which I am a life member of, for them to assert in their defense against the lawsuit filed by Obama For America vs Husted that the Commander-in-Chief is somehow trying to suppress the military vote in Ohio. And on top of this ludicrous and contemptuous claim against the Commander-in-Chief, their defense is aligned with an actual suppression of the vote against Ohio civilian citizens! One of the Army values is integrity and this integrity is violated by extreme partisan politics! Will these military groups make the effort to rebuff these distortions of the truth and see to the voting equal opportunity for all in the state of Ohio this November and for all time?