Ohio

In 2024 after a surge of mass voter challenges,  alongside Ohio Voting Rights Coalition partners, All Voting Ohio led a significant expansion of Boards of Election monitoring teams in order to gain on-the-ground, real-time information about threats to voter access and actions taken by Boards of Election. This effort resulted in volunteers deployed to 44 counties to monitor vote-counting processes after the November 2024 election. These volunteers continue to be engaged today, building relationships with their local election officials and gathering critical information on the ground about new challenges to election administration.

Using a collection of real-life experiences from voters and nonpartisan election observers, All Voting Ohio led the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition to create policy recommendations for election officials that address some of the state’s most critical voter access issues. The recommendations to county election officials provide guidance on how to alleviate barriers at the local level, including the overuse and rejection of provisional ballots, improving accessibility at polling locations, reducing delays in absentee ballot delivery, and other key areas. As a direct result of this work, two counties significantly improved their curbside voting access for voters with disabilities, and their processes will become a model for other counties statewide.