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Wall Street Journal: Biden Wins Ohio Primary More Than Two Months After State’s Voting Started
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.”
U.S. News & World Report: Democrat Mfume Retakes Maryland Congressional Seat in Special Election
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.
KJZZ: Election, Health Officials Urge Vote By Mail For Upcoming Arizona Elections
A coalition of election officials, health experts and voting rights advocates collected more than 1,000 signatures urging Gov. Doug Ducey and legislative Republicans to let ballots be mailed to all voters. Calling it a “vote-by-mail plus” model, the coalition led by All Voting Is Local Arizona said mailing ballots to every voter would not preclude the state from still offering polling places on election day in August and November.
ABA Journal: Voting rights for people in jail is becoming another casualty of COVID-19
Mike Brickner, the Ohio state director of All Voting Is Local, an advocacy group run by The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, fears that “we could end up back where we were before 2016, when few to no people in jail had a practical right to vote.”
The Columbus Dispatch: Coronavirus: Ohio voter advocates worry about lines for in-person voting Tuesday
All Voting is Local Ohio state director Mike Brickner blamed a “poorly thought-out and executed plan that did not leave voters or election officials time to do a true vote-by-mail election.” The Ohio Voter Rights Coalition advocated for extending absentee voting into mid-May, and LaRose wanted to conclude the election June 2.
Roll Call: Ballot scramble: Maryland, Ohio test rapid shift to all-mail voting
“It’s been kind of the opposite of smooth,” said Mike Brickner, the Ohio state director of All Voting is Local, an organization aimed at voter access. “I’ve been joking with people that the last month or so has felt like the longest five years of my life.”