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Cleveland.com: Why using Ohio BMV list to register voters misses many: far fewer young people drive
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Voting Rights Advocates Urge Ohio Secretary of State to Immediately Stop Voter Purges
COLUMBUS-- Ohio voting rights organizations urged Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to immediately stop plans to purge more than 235,000 voters’ registration on September 6.
ADVISORY — Ohio Voting Rights Advocates Urge Secretary of State to Stop Voter Purge
COLUMBUS--On Thursday, August 15 at 10 a.m, Ohio voting rights organizations will hold a press conference urging Secretary of State Frank LaRose to halt the state’s planned September 6 voter purge. LaRose announced recently that nearly 1,300 voters were wrongly added to the voter purge list, with errors found in four of Ohio’s 88 counties so far.