Ohio s tightened window for receiving mailed ballots is likely to affect just several hundred of the thousands of military and overseas ballots received in any election. Critics say any number is too great.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio's restrictive new election law significantly shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received despite no evidence that the extended timeline has led to fraud or any other problems and that change is angering active-duty members of the military and their families because of its potential to disenfranchise them.
Three other states narrowed their post-election windows for accepting mail ballots last session, according to data from the nonpartisan Voting Rights Lab.
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