Ohio is emerging as the battleground state in 2012, and according to Democrats, the state’s Republican leaders are looking to stack the deck by suppressing minority turnout, with tactics that have included attempts to curtail early voting. TheGrio’s Joy Reid sat down with State Senator Nina Turner to discuss efforts to get out the vote in Ohio despite the obstacles, in this segment that appeared Sunday on the Melissa Harris Perry Show on MSNBC — a segment that Melissa calls “This Week in Voter Suppression.”
Also on MHP: Resisting the roll-back of early voting.