Statement·other·said 2012-08-31
“Since the time of the Civil War, we've made a distinction in this country between the availability and the ability to access for people who were in the military, versus the rest of us, to vote.”
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Mixedby PolitiFact
2012-10-01Reasoning
Military absentee voting did originate in the Civil War, but most states repealed those statutes after the war; by 1915 only six states still had them, and most others did not reinstate them until the mid-1920s. DeWine's framing implied an unbroken 150-year tradition that did not exist.
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