WKSU: Voting Rights Group Says This Primary’s Vote Total So Far Is Just Half Of 2016’s
Mike Brickner with All Voting is Local has compared numbers for this primary with those from four years ago – when there was in person voting and a Republican primary that featured Ohio Gov. John Kasich. “In 2016, we had a little over three million people who voted in the primary election. For the 2020 election thus far, we are looking at about only 1.5 million people who have either cast an early ballot or requested an absentee ballot since we extended the time," Brickner says.
Loveland Magazine: Civil Rights Groups: Vote by mail improvements needed for Ohioans
In today’s telephone press briefing, advocates from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, All Voting is Local, and local voting rights organizations warned that voters may be disenfranchised unless Ohio lawmakers and election officials act now for future elections. All Voting is Local, and its coalition partners in Ohio, also called on officials to keep Ohio voters informed and expand early voting sites for future elections.
Florida Policy Makers Must Enact Voting Reforms Now Ahead of August Primary, Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
All Voting is Local and more than 30 statewide voting rights organizations called on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee, legislative leaders and election officials to immediately implement election reforms.
Arizona Republic: Don’t let Arizona become another Wisconsin. Set rules now to handle election emergencies
Opinion: Arizona needs nonpolitical, written standards that set out specific and objective criteria for modifying elections when emergencies hit.
Mic: Wisconsin’s primary election debacle has just begun
"Voters deserve free and fair elections where every voice is heard," Shauntay Nelson, the Wisconsin State Director for All Voting is Local, said in a press release, "and the assurance that their health and safety will be protected while our democracy remains intact.”
cleveland.com: Should Ohio plan for a vote-by-mail election in November, just in case?
There’s also the issue of recruiting enough poll workers, who tend to be older, given potential fears over health and safety issues. Mike Brickner, state director of All Voting is Local, a voting-rights group, has called for increasing poll-worker pay, and relaxing rules that would allow someone to work the polls outside their home county.