Akron Beacon Journal: Thousands saved from Ohio’s purge of inactive voter registrations

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.”

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New voting technology is good step for Pennsylvania, but voters need training | Opinion

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf was right to aim big when he pledged to upgrade the commonwealth’s antiquated voting machines by the 2020 election. Now Wolf, the Department of State, and county officials must work together to launch a commonwealth-wide plan to teach both voters and poll workers about the new voting systems. Voters deserve it, Election Day workers require it, and the integrity of our democratic process depends on it.

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Text Campaign Aims to Prevent Ohio Voters From Being Purged

COLUMBUS--All Voting is Local today will text alert 103,000 Ohioans to update their voter registrations to avoid being purged from the state’s voting lists later this week. On Friday, Secretary of State Frank LaRose plans to purge 235,000 voters’ registrations -- despite urging from advocates to hold off because of errors in multiple counties that have led to eligible voters wrongly placed on the purge list.

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