Advocates Call on Arizona Officials for Safe, Meaningful Options to Expand Access to the Ballot
PHOENIX – Arizona elections officials, public health experts, and advocacy organizations urged the Arizona governor, secretary of state, and legislature to ensure safe and secure elections this fall, including providing every registered voter with their ballot by mail, while preserving safe in-person voting options.
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Mike Brickner, the Ohio director of All Voting is Local, added: “What we’re seeing now is that a lot of those voters did not receive absentee ballots.” On Monday, the Ohio secretary of state’s office reported that 1.97 million Ohioans requested vote-by-mail ballots for the primary, and about 1.46 million of them had already cast ballots, leaving more than 500,000 ballots outstanding.
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This election, like many things these days, is unprecedented. Ohio voters who didn’t cast ballots before March 17th were instructed to vote by mail. But Mike Brickner with All Voting is Local says his group is hearing from confused voters who didn’t get their ballots in the mail or didn’t understand the voting process. “It has been very confusing, very frustrating for voters," Brickner says.
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Mike Brickner, Ohio director for the voting rights group All Voting is Local, told reporters some voters had struggled to meet the deadlines because of U.S. Postal Service delays. “Voters have been very frustrated and confused by this process,” he said. “Mail is simply going too slow here in Ohio to effectively conduct an all-mail election.”
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Mike Brickner, Ohio state director of the group All Voting is Local, said during the call that such barriers were likely to yield historically low turnout.
MEDIA ADVISORY-Advocates Call on Arizona Officials for Safe, Meaningful Options to Expand Access to the Ballot
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 1 p.m. MST/AZ, Arizona elections officials, public health experts, and advocacy organizations will hold a press briefing to discuss why the Arizona governor, secretary of state, and legislature must ensure safe and secure elections this fall, including providing every registered voter with their ballot by mail, while preserving meaningful in-person voting options.