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Secretary LaRose says his outreach work will continue; I guess we ll see them in court
File photo of a voting location from Wikimedia Commons by Tom Arthur.
With Ohio searching for more poll workers during the pandemic last year, Secretary of State Frank LaRose had to get creative.
Ohioans needed their hair cut after being indoors for months. And, perhaps just as much, they wanted to go out again for drinks. So LaRose announced two new programs meant to spur voter registration and poll worker recruitment.
“Styling for Democracy” brought registration forms to Ohio barber shops, while a number of craft breweries joined the “Raise a Glass for Democracy” campaign. Rhinegeist Brewery offered up bottles of Every Vote Counts IPA with labels that read, “A collaboration brewed to encourage voter registration in Ohio.”
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Gov. Mike DeWine and Sec. of State Frank LaRose, both Republicans, say they don’t think the language in the budget will prevent public-private collaboration on outreach and education efforts, such as voter registration drives. But groups that do that work and some Democrats, like Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland), are not so sure. She is sponsoring legislation to repeal that language that she says was tucked into the budget without debate or hearings.
“This often happens to bills that probably wouldn’t make it through the legislative process on its own so they sneak it into the budget, Sweeney says.