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"Voters deserve free and fair elections where every voice is heard," Shauntay Nelson, the Wisconsin State Director for All Voting is Local, said in a press release, "and the assurance that their health and safety will be protected while our democracy remains intact.”
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There’s also the issue of recruiting enough poll workers, who tend to be older, given potential fears over health and safety issues. Mike Brickner, state director of All Voting is Local, a voting-rights group, has called for increasing poll-worker pay, and relaxing rules that would allow someone to work the polls outside their home county.
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The new voting date for the state of Ohio will show just how many people are serious about casting ballots for this year's primary election.
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Voters with qualifying disabilities also can vote absentee through Ohio’s “remote ballot marking system,” which allows those individuals to use their own screen to fill out their ballot, print it and mail it to their local board of elections. All Voting is Local, a voter advocacy organization, recorded a video explaining how to apply for and complete ballots through the remote ballot marking system.
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In response to the polling location changes, All Voting is Local Ohio launched a texting campaign that reached 111,000 voters – the same tool we used since 2018 to reach over half a million Ohio voters at risk of purges. Nonpartisan voter rights groups stepped up, but it’s the responsibility of government officials to communicate to voters with the latest and most accurate information.
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"Unfortunately this proposed date of April 28 is just simply unacceptable," says Mike Brickner, state director of All Voting Is Local. Voter rights advocates say this process is cumbersome and requires too much interaction with the postal service which can take time.