Talking Points Memo reports that Ohio’s secretary of state has apologized for appearing to ignore a federal judge’s order that blocked the state from taking away early voting three days before the election. Read more.

The Daily Beast reports on Democratic efforts to get out the African-American vote in the face of what Al Sharpton calls massive efforts to discourage and prevent people of color from voting. Read more.

Civil Rights icon John Lewis tells the Democratic National Convention that Republic efforts to suppress voting is a throwback to the Jim Crow era, Talking Points Memo reports. Read more.

Cronkite News reports the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee are forming teams of lawyers to help voters navigate changing voting laws across the country. Read more.

Rep. Karen Bass, a Democrat from California, criticized Republicans for what she called attacks on voting rights during a speech at the Democratic National Convention. Talking Points Memo also provides the full text of the Democratic platform’s section on voting rights. Read more.

Talking Points Memo also reports on a Justice Department decision that clears the way for New Hampshire’s new voter ID law to take effect. Read more.

A Pentagon report says members of the military aren’t getting all the help they need to vote, according to an account in Talking Points Memo. Read more.

A Tampa Bay Times columnist reacts to the way in which Florida defended a move to reduce the number of early voting days. The key witness, Steve Bousquet says, was unconvincing. Read more.

Two groups are stepping up their efforts to register Latino voters in Arizona, where 1.5 million eligible voters, many of them Latino, are not registered to vote, according to a Cronkite News article. The groups are mailing more than 100,000 registration applications this week. Read more.

The Associated Press reports that a federal judge in Ohio has restored in-person early voting, ruling in favor of the Obama campaign and allowing all voters in the state to cast their ballots in person three days before Election Day. Read more.