Those anonymous billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin that equate voting with a possible prison sentence are coming down, to be replaced in some cases by new ones that say, “Voting is a right. Not a crime!”
After initially defending the billboards paid for by a “private family foundation,” the advertising company Clear Channel has announced that it will take down the scary billboards. Their message — “Voter fraud is a felony! Up to 3 1/2 years & $10,000 fine” — has been presented now in dozens of neighborhoods of poor and minority neighborhoods across Ohio and Milwaukee. In Ohio, Clear Channel will then put up 10 billboards with the pro-voting message pictured above. In Wisconsin, Clear Channel will sponsor digital billboards that encourage early voting.
On a like note, after pressure from the Jackson Free Press and local lefties, Mississippi’s Republican Secretary of State has added a message — at right, in very small type — on the state’s website that says the voter ID law will not be in effect in November. The law has been put on hold by the U.S. Justice Department.









