Starting today, Minnesotans can take advantage of early voting ahead of the March 5 presidential primary and a growing number of rural residents will cast their ballots by mail after their communities endorsed the option full-time. In 1987, Minnesota adopted a law which allows cities with fewer than 400 registered voters or non-metro townships of all sizes to make voting by mail their only option if they approve a resolution. Steve Simon, Secretary of State, said the idea is to take pressure off local administrators who simply don t have the resources to maintain polling sites. .
Ohioans may have the chance to add a new Voters Bill of Rights to the state Constitution to support ballot access. Voting rights advocates said they want better controls on the state s purging of voter registration rolls. They also want early voting days restored, and protections enshrined in the Constitution, rather than only in law. .
(The Center Square) – State Attorney General Dave Yost turned away a plan to allow voters to overhaul Ohio’s election rules, saying a petition for a constitutional amendment is misleading.
View a previous report on Ohioans being purged from voter rolls in the video player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A petition for a constitutional amendment to enact a wide array of election reforms has been rejected by the Ohio Attorney General. A statewide coalition seeking to place what it calls the “Safe and Fair […]
The proposed amendment would establish the right to vote as a fundamental right and bar the state from using “any means whatsoever” to interfere with an of-age Ohioan’s right to vote.