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Ohio GOP readies new voting restrictions, including a ban on prepaid postage

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4/16/21
Cleveland.com reports that Ohio Republicans are planning to introduce a major new voting restriction bill that could impose significant changes and limitations on mail voting in particular, and the corporate watchdog group More Perfect Union obtained what it calls a leaked draft of the bill that would abolish absentee ballot drop boxes, ban prepaid postage on absentee ballots, require two forms of ID for voting absentee or early, and cut early voting availability. Republicans are also considering codifying some of LaRose's directives into law, such as one that limited counties to a single location for mail ballot drop boxes regardless of population size instead of outright banning them. Combined with a 2006 law Republicans passed to limit counties to one early voting location regardless of size, this directive means that populous Democratic-dominated urban counties such as Franklin County, which is home to the state capital of Columbus and 1.3 million residents, are placed at a disadvantage compared to residents of smaller Republican-leaning counties like Vinton County, which has just 13,000 residents but the same number of drop boxes and early voting sites.


Southern Jim Crow voter suppression laws are coming to the northern state of Ohio courtesy of the Republican Party.
 




Southern Jim Crow voter suppression laws are coming to the northern state of Ohio courtesy of the Republican Party.
GOP gotta do what it's gotta do. They owe it to their dwindling constituencies.
 
This is ALEC directing this nonsense from I believe Wichita, Kansas. That's right wasting peoples tax dollars by way of encouraging various ways to suppress voting rights which is a crime.

One source wants to control all voters ...... to think their right wing nut way till we arrive at Fascism.

Simply because conservatives are only 20% of the population should not allow them to commit a variety
of crimes directed at voter suppression.
 
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