Ohio
Voting Rights Groups Urge Secretary of State Frank LaRose to Include Further Provisions in Election Officials Manual to Increase Access to the Ballot
CLEVELAND — Today, three key organizations of the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition and the nonpartisan Election Protection coalition – All Voting is Local, ACLU of Ohio, and League of Women Voters of Ohio – submitted comments for the Election Officials Manual (EOM), urging the state to ensure voting policies that increase access to the ballot so that all Ohio voters can make their voices heard.
Franklin, Cuyahoga, and Montgomery Counties Must Investigate High Voter Registration Rejection Rates
CLEVELAND — All Voting is Local Ohio is demanding that the Franklin, Cuyahoga, and Montgomery Counties Boards of Directors initiate investigations into National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and non-NVRA agencies due to the large number of rejected voter registration forms.
Ohio Secretary of State LaRose Must Create Consistent Standards for Collecting Election Data Across Counties
CLEVELAND--The Ohio Voter Rights Coalition called on Secretary of State Frank LaRose to require universal standards for how Ohio’s 88 counties collect election data, a move that is critical in bolstering public confidence in the state’s election system.
Too Many Ballots of Last Resort – Disparities in Provisional Ballot Use in Ohio’s 2020 Election
Against the backdrop of a lethal pandemic, Floridians turned out in record numbers to cast vote by mail ballots in the November 3, 2020, general election. Although the state’s election ran smoothly, more than 47,000 Floridians—the majority of whom were people of color, younger voters, and first-time voters—had to follow-up with their elections supervisor to fix or “cure” their ballots before they could count. In this report, we examine these disparities and offer recommendations on how Florida’s 67 counties can make the process and validating of mail ballots uniform so that all voters can make their voices heard.
Ohio Secretary of State Must Stop the Purges, Be Transparent
CLEVELAND — All Voting is Local Ohio State Director Kayla Griffin issued the following statement in response to recent revelations that Ohio’s county election boards are unilaterally and illegally removing voters with a conviction from their rolls.
COVID-19 exposed Ohio’s voting barriers – now the state must fix them: Kayla Griffin
CLEVELAND -- In the spring, there was every reason to believe that the November general election in Ohio would be a disaster. The way the state fumbled the handling of the delayed presidential primary didn’t give Ohioans much reason for optimism.