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DECLARATION OF MOLLY M. RUGG

(pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1776)

My name is Molly M. Rugg and I am over the age of 18 and fully competent to make this

declaration. Under penalty of perjury, I declare the following:

1. I am a paralegal for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation’s Voting Rights

Project.

2. Attached to this declaration are screenshots of certain websites concerning the early

voting (absentee in-person voting) hours offered by certain counties in Ohio in general

elections prior to 2012.

3. To find this information, I first searched Google for the early voting hours of a particular

county during a particular year. I took screenshots of any webpages I found that

contained that information.

4. In cases where I was not able to find the information through Google, I used a webpage

archive called the WayBack Machine, located at https://archive.org/web/. According to

the website, the archive is run by a nonprofit organization whose goal is to create a

library of internet pages that might otherwise disappear or change with time.

5. The WayBack Machine pulled up old versions of county Board of Elections websites.

Some county websites displayed early voting information for a particular general election

in the months leading up to that election, but removed that information after the election.

I used the WayBack Machine to attempt to find the website as it existed during that time

window.

6. If I could not find a county’s past early voting hours through Google, I searched for the

website address for the county Board of Elections. I then visited the WayBack

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https://archive.org/web/

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Machine’s search page, https://archive.org/web/. I pasted the address for the county

Board of Elections website into the “Browse History” bar and clicked “Browse History.”

7. From there, the WayBack Machine brought me to a calendar page that displayed the

twelve months of the present year, with blue circles indicating dates on which the

Machine had taken a snapshot of the webpage for the archives. Across the top of the

calendar page was a bar displaying all years from 1996 to the present. Upon clicking on

any of these years, a new twelve-month calendar appeared showing blue circles for the

dates on which the Machine took a snapshot of that particular webpage during that year.

8. I clicked on the relevant year (e.g., 2010) and then selected a snapshot from a day during

the months leading up to the November election (or, in some cases, shortly after the

election). Some of the counties’ websites displayed their early voting hours on the

homepage, while others required me to click through to their absentee information pages,

voter information pages, or frequently asked questions pages. When I did locate the early

voting hours, I took a screenshot on my computer. All screenshots from this site contain

the date of the webpage version in the top-right.

9. The screenshots attached to this declaration were pulled using the methods described

above.

10. The screenshots include my computer’s taskbar. The time and date located at the bottom-

right corner on the taskbar indicates the date and time that I took the screenshot (i.e., the

date and time that I visited the website).

11. According to the attached screenshots, the following counties had multiple Sundays

available for early in-person voting in 2008 and/or 2010: Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton,

Summit, Lucas, and Montgomery.


https://archive.org/web/

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Cuyahoga County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2008


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Franklin County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2008


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Hamilton County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2008

http://votetodayohio.blogspot.com/2008/09/early-voting-centers.html


http://votetodayohio.blogspot.com/2008/09/early-voting-centers.html

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Summit County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2008


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Lucas County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2008

http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/8871545/early-voting-new-location-and-hours-for-lucas-county


http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/8871545/early-voting-new-location-and-hours-for-lucas-county

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Greene County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2008


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Butler County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2008


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http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_boe/en-US/ElectionNotices/2010NovInhouseVoting.pdf


boe.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_boe/en-US/ElectionNotices/2010NovInhouseVoting.pdf

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Franklin County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2010

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2010/09/27/story-columbus-franklin-delaware-county-early-voting.html


http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2010/09/27/story-columbus-franklin-delaware-county-early-voting.html

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(Early in-person voting hours were pulled from two sources)

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/02/25/husted-sets-uniform-voting-hours/5807307/


http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/02/25/husted-sets-uniform-voting-hours/5807307/

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(Early in-person voting hours were pulled from two sources)

http://www.hamiltoncountyohio.gov/hc/hc_pdfs/102010HHC.pdf


www.hamiltoncountyohio.gov/hc/hc_pdfs/102010HHC.pdf

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Summit County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2010


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Montgomery County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2010

http://www.mcohio.org/newsdetail492.html


http://www.mcohio.org/newsdetail492.html

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Lucas County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2010

http://7online.com/archive/7691805/


http://7online.com/archive/7691805/

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Greene County Early In-Person Voting Hours, 2010


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