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>> congresswoman marsha fudge represents part of northeastern ohio, including cleveland. >> there was only a four percentage spread in the electorate. 4% of the vote, you can get that easily by taking 100 votes here, 100 votes there. >> john hew stead is the ohio secretary of state. >> you can start voting 35 days in advance, either by mail or in person. over the course of five weeks, you have approximately 750 hours to vote from home, 230 hours to vote in person. >> on friday, a federal appeals court reinstated in-person early voting in ohio on the final three days before election day. nation...

Convenient to you if you're holding, maybe, one or two jobs? democrats have tried to fight this, but the republican election commissioners in the state are blocking it. the republican secretary of state, john hew stead, is siding with them, but only when it comes to the democratic-leaning areas, as ari berman of "the nation" reports, in solidly republican counties, gop election commissioners have approved expanded early voting hours on night and weekends. now, just so we're all on the same page here, in republican areas, early voting is convenient for working folks. in democratic areas, well, ...

What happens when there's a split, the secretary of state, who's a republican, has intervened to limit early voting hours in places like cleveland, columbus, akron, and toledo. that's how they are getting away with this. >> republicans in the state say slashing the early voting is all about cost. why is that a lie? >> never let the truth get in the way of a good story, ed. the republicans have a lot of good stories but not a lot of truth. what is the cost of the state of ohio returning to the debacle of 2004? yes, there will be a cost to holding clean and fair elections, but that is a cost wor...