CMS leaders push for change to state voting law amid security concerns yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Sharon Synowsky Friends, While we are so focused on Donald Trump and his myriad of legal woes; while we are focused on Congress and all the GOP shenanigans; and while we are watching the nationwide GOP slo-mo implosion; State legislatures are trying to undo Democracy from the ground up. In Pennsy
The Ohio Supreme Court rejected the ballot language for the August special election, necessitating a re-write that stalled local plans to certify the ballot Tuesday.
election cutoff date. now, i want to stipulate there are plenty of voting rights advocates who thought the previous four days was too short. but 52% of the ones rejected are because it was 11 days, might there be some benefit in a middle ground there? 52% is a lot. i think that really goes to voter education and so we have been pushing that out, but this election came relatively quickly. the law was passed and signed into law this year. and so that s one of the things that our office will be making sure that we educate voters that there is now an 11-daytime frame, so they can make their requests, send it in, and they can process is, send back their ballot and the voter can send their ballot back in. so it does require about 11 days. we want to make sure there is appropriate time. many states have that. that will be really the county election director is working with our local communities and also our office, whatever we can do through our office to really make sure that voters are aw