Ohio
Advocacy Groups Urge Ohio’s Secretary of State to Mandate Drop Boxes for General Election
CLEVELAND - All Voting is Local, Common Cause Ohio, Columbus Stand Up, and several religious and community organizations sent a letter today to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose urging him to increase the number of ballot drop boxes in each county.
All Voting is Local Welcomes Kayla Griffin as Ohio State Director
CLEVELAND — All Voting is Local welcomed Kayla S. Griffin as its Ohio State Director to lead the campaign’s fight to remove barriers between Ohioans and the ballot box.
Sirius XM: The Vote Must Go On: How to Hold An Election During a Pandemic
With the November elections just six months away, many Democrats are growing concerned about the state of our democracy, with new questions and concerns about whether they'll be able to safely vote by mail, the potential for voter suppression, and other obstacles. In his new Urban View special, Radio Hall of Fame host Joe Madison will tackle these subjects and more with some of the most prominent names in modern politics, as well as voting rights and medical experts, including: former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; Sen. Kamala Harris; former senior advisor to President Obama Valerie Jarrett; DNC Chair Tom Perez; Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; Gov. Phil Murphy; Gov. Ralph Northam; Sen. Mark Warner; Rep. Gwen Moore; Mike Brickner, "All Voting is Local" Ohio State Director; and Dr. Adam Ratner, Director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at NYU Langone Health and contributor on SiriusXM and NYU Langone Health's Doctor Radio channel.
The National Memo: Ohio Primary Raises New Election Worry: Rejected Provisional Ballots
"We have 1.4 million ballots cast. There are still 500,000 that have not yet been reported back in," said Mike Brickner, Ohio director for AllVotingIsLocal.org, at the Lawyers' Committee briefing on primary day. "There's a lot of concern that many of those ballots may not reach voters in time, and many [voters] do not want to go to the boards of elections today because they have health concerns or other issues."
CBS News: 2020 Daily Trail Markers: Ohio wraps up mail-in primary
Mike Brickner, Ohio's state director for All Voting is Local, said Ohio's mail-in primary is a learning opportunity on how vote-by-mail can be further improved for future elections during the coronavirus pandemic. "We can't predict what's going to happen with this global pandemic, except that we can predict that until we have a vaccine, the virus is going to be here in our communities," Brickner said. "We have to start planning for what the impact is that that's going to be for November election."
Low voter turnout and confusion highlight Ohio’s delayed primary election
“Voters had called into their Board of Elections inquiring about the provisional voting process and the [people] who answered those phones at those various Boards of Elections said ‘we don’t have provisional voting on Tuesday, it’s only for disabled and homeless voters,’ ” said Mike Brickner, who leads the Ohio division of All Voting is Local.