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Ohio Supreme Court restores voting rights proposal after Republicans split it in four

BY: - April 15, 2020

The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled a decision from Republicans on the Ohio Ballot Board, ordering them to certify that a proposed voter-access referendum only spans a single issue. The Ballot Board — chaired by Secretary of State Frank LaRose — sliced the referendum into four parts in March. This quadrupled the number of […]

Republicans slice voter registration referendum into four parts

BY: - March 3, 2020

Ohio Republicans sliced apart a proposed constitutional amendment that would have made it easier to vote in Ohio. By dissecting the “Secure and Fair Elections Amendment” into four separate ballot proposals instead of one cohesive sweep, the Ohio Ballot Board effectively increased the required number of valid signatures four-fold from about 443,000 to nearly 1.8 […]

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Ohio in desperate need of election modernization

BY: - January 17, 2020

Ohioans need to have an urgent, nonpartisan, consensus-driven conversation about a subject we rarely talk about: our state’s woefully lackluster voter participation.  Despite Ohio’s longstanding reputation for being the nation’s election barometer, when it comes to our record of showing up at the polls, “so goes Ohio” is not what we would ever wish for […]