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Related: About this forumA million Ohio voters didn’t get absentee ballot mailing
While we are all distracted by the campaign, the voter rolls are being caged. Check your registration, know your deadlines.A million Ohio voters didnt get absentee ballot mailing
Darrel Rowland The Columbus Dispatch Sunday October 2, 2016
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husteds decision not to mail absentee ballot applications to 13 percent of the states registered voters has drawn fire and raised questions.
The news release said, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted today announced his office will begin mailing absentee ballot applications to voters statewide this weekend.
What it didnt say was that more than a million of Ohios 7.7 million registered voters wouldnt get the mailing, because Husteds office had pared the list beforehand.
The 1,035,795 voters left out fall into two categories:
Were working extremely hard to encourage participation this November .............
Darrel Rowland The Columbus Dispatch Sunday October 2, 2016
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husteds decision not to mail absentee ballot applications to 13 percent of the states registered voters has drawn fire and raised questions.
The news release said, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted today announced his office will begin mailing absentee ballot applications to voters statewide this weekend.
What it didnt say was that more than a million of Ohios 7.7 million registered voters wouldnt get the mailing, because Husteds office had pared the list beforehand.
The 1,035,795 voters left out fall into two categories:
650,730 who have changed their address. This includes 568,456 who moved within Ohio; they were sent cards asking them to update their address. The 82,274 who moved out of state were mailed information on how to cancel their Ohio registration.
385,065 who did not vote in either the 2012 or 2014 elections and have not responded to queries about their address from their county board of elections.
Were working extremely hard to encourage participation this November .............
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A million Ohio voters didn’t get absentee ballot mailing (Original Post)
Coyotl
Oct 2016
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Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)1. JAIL TIME FOR THIS PARTISAN A-HOLE
This guy always pulls this stuff all the time: ENOUGH!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)3. Sunday kick. Check your registration, know your deadlines.