CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday refused to order the rehiring of two local election officials, both Democrats, fired by Ohio's Republican secretary of state after they tried to extend weekend hours for early, in-person voting ahead of the November 6 election. Secretary of State Jon Husted fired the two men, Dennis Lieberman and Tom Ritchie, in August after they proposed that voters in Montgomery County, which includes the Democratic-leaning city of Dayton, be allowed to vote on the weekends leading up to the election. ...

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