Government
'If You Can't Afford a Car, You Should Still Be Able to Vote'
Cincinnati may move its only early voting station out of downtown, a shift that could make access near-impossible for the city's car-less.
In Cincinnati, a proposal to move the Hamilton County Board of Elections office from downtown to a site several miles outside the central business district has turned into a heated political battle, drawing charges of voter suppression and grandstanding.
The BoE is the county’s sole early voting location. Opponents say moving it from the heart of the city, where the region's bus lines converge, to an area eight and a half miles out (and served by only one bus line) will make early voting harder for the county's car-less, including more than 21 percent of Cincinnati's population.