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Mike Brickner, the Ohio director for All Voting is Local, says his group wants the voters to know where their new polling places will be. They plan to send the texts on Monday, directing recipients to check out the Secretary of State’s website, which has a designated coronavirus section — www.ohiosos.gov/coronafacts — that includes up-to-date information about polling locations.

That might not be enough, said Mike Brickner, the director of the Ohio chapter of All Voting is Local, an advocacy group. “Obviously this is pretty short notice and voters may not know that their polling location has moved and may not get that postcard in the mail, or see it, or read it,” he said. He urged election officials to go the “extra mile” and said his group plans to text voters affected by the change.

Two leading advocates for increasing voter registration in Ohio - Jen Miller, executive director of the Ohio League of Women Voters, and Mike Brickner, Ohio director for All Voting is Local - said the mailing was a solid effort to attract more voters, yet both pointed out that many people will be missed.

Mike Brickner, Ohio director for All Voting is Local, said his organization supported LaRose’s decision to extend exemptions for some registrations on the purge list but that they do not resolve “systemic issues with ways that the boards of elections are conducting their purges, how they’re identifying voters for purges and how they’re working with vendors to identify who should be on this purge list.”

More voters in Franklin County cast provisional ballots in November 2018 after their eligibility was questioned, and more of those votes were tossed before the final counts, compared with Ohio’s other 87 counties, according to an analysis released Thursday by a voter advocacy group.

The country is in desperate need of more volunteer poll workers, who spend 14- to 15-hour days making sure people can exercise their right to vote. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is claiming Democrats’ effort to get more federal workers to help is actually a corrupt scheme to steal elections.