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By Kathy Wray Coleman: Rep. Fudge asks U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to examine restrictive voting bills in Ohio that she says will "impede the voting abilities of minorities, students, the elderly"

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Congresswoman Marcia  L. Fudge (D-Ohio)  (left) and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Cleveland Urban News.Com and  The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and   No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) and  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at   editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Today, Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat whose predominantly Black 11th congressional district includes East Cleveland and parts of the cities of Cleveland and  Akron, Ohio , and who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress,  sent a   letter   to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to examine House Bill 269 and Senate Bill 238, two pending bills in the Ohio State Legislature  which impose photo identification restrictions and reduce early voting days, respectively. In her letter to Holder, America's first Black U.S.