Ohio IS my back yard! NATIONAL PROTEST vs. HB3 - Voter Suppression Bill

[GuvWurld]

This announcement is making the rounds via e-mail...


WE HAVE GOT TO STOP THIS - THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA MUST RISE UP AND SHUT THEM DOWN IN OHIO.
If everyone devotes just 15 minutes and passes this along, we could create a tsunami of protest.


It is past midnight for Democracy in Ohio. And you must know, as Ohio goes, so goes our country.
I URGE you to read this article, if you haven't:


With new legislation, Ohio Republicans plan holiday burial for American Democracy
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
December 6, 2005.... A law that will make democracy all but moot in Ohio is about to pass the state legislature and to be signed by its Republican governor.


http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1607


What can we do? The Democrats in the Ohio legislature are out numbered and out gunned. The bill will pass - easily. The Ohio election reform activists, the Ohio League of Women Voters, Common Cause in Ohio, are doing everything they can.


They need OUR outrage - ALL OUR VOICES to support them. A NATIONAL "SHAME ON OHIO" CAMPAIGN.
Will you make a few phone calls or send emails, and ask everyone to pitch in? PLEASE! Don't leave it to the next guy.


My friend Paddy Shaffer, whose stand-alone courage against the Delaware, Ohio (my home town) Board of Elections during the 2004 recount inspired me to come to Ohio and join in the fight, wrote the following:


Here is Citizen Paddy:


One thing I hear from people doing questionable things is, that it is not justified to voice your opinion if it is not your district, county, city, or state, where the questionable issue is happening.


In November of 2004 when I started asking questions in Delaware County, Ohio, as to why they had filed an injunction to stop the recount of the Presidential election, I was told that since I live in an adjacent county, it was not my business. I did not stop, it was my business, and I did everything I could to open up the story and let all the truths I could find be aired. The recount proceeded, even though it was a sham.


Why do I tell you this... because Ohio needs your help. We have a horrible new piece of legislation that currently looks like it will be voted on Tuesday December 13, 2005. House Bill 3 could be better titled "The Republican Voter Suppression Bill".


One Republican that spoke on the Radio today about it went on at length about how "out-of-staters should leave us alone, stop interfering, this only concerns Ohioans," etc. I would like to take this moment to invite you to help. Consider yourself not an "interfering outsider" as the Republicans (who paid for the Texas Strike Force) would and will call you, but let them know that Paddy and other Ohioans invited you to help.


Also tell them as an American, everything that happens in this country is your business, it is all our back yard.


http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/by_name.html


http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/SearchbyName.jsp
(the 800 number is not available for oostaters)


Add your voice, call and fill their mailboxes and voicemail over the weekend, call and fill their phone lines next week.
Write too, if you can. Ohio needs you!


1) Call or email the Republican members of the Ohio Legislature.
Tell them the whole country is watching what is happening in Ohio.
Tell them you're watching the votes on HB 3 - a threat to Democracy.
Tell them Voter Suppression is ugly and Un-American.
Tell them you are calling in to radio shows to discuss how Ohio has become a Faux Democracy and The Yahoo State


2) Call or email the Democratic members of the Ohio legislature.


Tell them to hang in there, and THANKS for standing against this terrible bill.
Encourage them to propose amendments to specific sections of HB3 and call for roll call votes so that all senators will be required to take a public position on each of the proposed amendments.


(Then we can use that information in campaigns in all House districts and in half of the Senate districts.)


3) Create national publicity! Call in to the talk shows, write letters to the editor, write to the media:
Take your money out of Ohio - the yahoo state. BOYCOTT OHIO!


This threat to democracy is the business of ALL of us.


Thanks for taking time to view this,
Make it a Powerful Day,
Paddy Shaffer


Patricia Shaffer,
Candidate for Ohio 12th District, US House Representative
[phone]


Onward, raging for what's right,
Sheri Myers


*** If you haven't yet, buy a copy of Mark Crispin Miller's Fooled Again. It can help convert the ignorant and the resistant.
(Not that you are, I mean, OTHER people!) also get How the GOP stole America's 2004 election and is rigging 2008, by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

[texpatriot2004]

1. K & R to start the wave nm

[happyslug]

2. Why does the GOP need to cheat in Ohio?????

Have they lost the RURAL vote? The urban core (Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo Columbus, Akron etc) are going to go Democratic. The suburbs tend to be the area were both parties campaign (they can go either way) but the GOP stronghold in Ohio in the Rural Counties (Which has been solid GOP since the Civil War, like most of the Rural North). What is going on in these counties? To many Democrats? Or to many Rural Republicans rejecting what Bush and Company is doing to the Country? (I Suspect the later).

My point is you do NOT cheat unless you do not think you can win honestly. The cost of winning by Cheating is just to high. You end up NOT having the support of the majority and without that Support how can the losing side accept the results of the election? How can you rule without the use of FORCE? Four years out of office is better than four years under a cloud of a dishonest election, but the GOP seems not to care. The National GOP seems to have adopted a policy that to win is EVERYTHING and no longer care HOW its wins. That is dangerous, neither party has EVER before accepted such a position. People prefer to win than to lose, but to lose do to fraud will NOT be accepted. You may get people to accept it for a while, but once the truth gets out all support for the Government will fall.

In many ways the National GOP wants to retain power NO MATTER WHAT. That is NOT democracy, it is one party rule and one party rule is inherently unstable (Look at the Nazis and Communists, without the use of Force neither could have stayed in power for more than 10 years). One party rule leads to one of tow situation, the first is a a Saddam or a Stalin where forced is used domesticity to keep them in power, or in the alternative a Hitler or a Tojo who uses force against a foreign country to rally the country behind them as dictator (And this lead to tyranny abroad which leads to the first type dictator domestically). Once the dictator is in power he awards his friends and allies (in the case of the Nazis their Corporate sponsors, in the Case on Stalin his henchmen in the Soviet Bureaucracy) on the backs of the majority of people (Look at how the Corporations of Germany treated their Slave Labor population during WWII and of course Stalin's Gulags).

Thus election cheating AS A POLICY is dangerous for an opposition party is needed to keep the Majority party honest. The parties feed off each other, as one waxes in strength the other looks at how to cut off parts of the other party and join that part to themselves so they can get back in power. The parts most likely to be split off are those parts most for reform of the country and the Government. Thus the GOP took in all the Anti-slave members of the Majority Democratic of the 1850s. The Democrats did the same in the 1880s by taking in those members of the GOP who wanted Civil Service. The Democrats then took in those reformers of the GOP who wanted to increase inflation with the minting of more Silver in the 1890s (and finally winning the Presidency in 1912 on the issue of a Federal Income Tax). The GOP during this time period did not resort to cheating (the memory of the 1877 election was to much even for them) but instead adopted some reforms (in the form of Theodore Roosevelt's Reforms) and screaming about Communists (A GOP practice that started after the 1877 General Strike, used again in the 1890s and during the Plammer raids of 1919-1920, the Great Depression and the McCarthy era of the late 1940s and early 1950s).

Now the GOP lost its status of Majority party as the Democrats embraced the needs of the Urban working class. Thus in 1932 the Democratic Party for the first time since 1860 became the Majority party of the US. The GOP tired to split it up by screaming Communists, and when that did not work tried to split off sections of the Democratic Coalition. This succeeded in the form of "Reagan Democrats" of the 1980s. This gave the Republican Party what many people said was majority Status (But more like an almost even split in the population). This even split has been the situation since Reagan. Clinton was able to win in 1992 not only do to Perot's campaign BUT that a lot of Reagan Democrats returned to the Democratic Party given the Recession of 1991. Thus since 1992 the GOP has run campaign to get these Reagan Democrats to vote GOP. The problem is most of these Democrats best interest is with the Democrats NOT the GOP. Since the GOP can not entice them by economic reasons, the GOP has instead used Guns and gays as the their campaign to these Reagan Democrats. Even here most Reagan Democrats voted for Gore and then Kerry. Thus the need to cheat. The GOP can not bring itself to cut off any major supporters of the Democratic Party. The GOP can NOT support aid for the Black and Brown Communities. They can not bring themselves to aid low income people, they can not bring themselves to help ANY economic minority. Now the GOP can help Social Minorities, but these are have always been evenly split between the parties, it is economics that makes or breaks a party's elections status. Guns, Gays and Immigrants do NOT address the economic problems of most Democratic.

On the other hand, Government intervention into the Economy is something that can help rural America and thus cause a split from the GOP to the Democrats. This would be a stampede if the issue of Guns would go away (and might if the Supreme court ever rules on thew Second Amendment, something the GOP will try to prevent at all costs). The same with the issue of Gays, if the Federal Courts rule sit is a matter of state law only, it will quickly become just a state issue and then a dead issue (Dead in the sense it will NOT decide elections). Immigration does affect wages (The reason the US did NOT suffer from wage inflation under Clinton was do to the number of immigrates into the US in the 1990s put downward pressure on wages instead of the upward pressure a booming economy should have caused). and thus an economic issue. The problem here in the GOP wants it both ways, permit immigrants into the country to keep wages low, but then pass legislation that restricts immigration. You can NOT have it both ways, you either STOP immigration or you support immigration. If the GOP backs immigration, it can NOT split off any Democratic Supporters from the Democratic Party. On the other hand if the GOP opposes Immigration the GOP can win over some Democrats but at the cost of their Corporate supporters who WANT low wage immigrants (Who will then go over to the Democrats).

As to the other "Hot Topic" Abortion, the GOP has been having it both ways since the 1970s but that seems to be ending. GOP women are being split off from the GOP and voting Democratic to save Abortion rights. For the first time since the 1970s you have a very good chance that abortion may be made illegal in the US. While such il-legalization of Abortion was impossible during the 1970s through 1990s a lot of people voted for the GOP. Now that there is a GOOD chance that Abortion may be left to the states these same people are voting DEMOCRATIC to preserve abortion rights. A lot of suburban Republicans will vote Democratic to preserve their right to have an abortion, thus strengthening the Democratic Party.

Given the problems facing the GOP, lost of support domestically, and an inability to split off Democrats from the Democratic Party, the GOP has to Cheat to stay in power. It is the only way the GOP can stay in power. The problem is once you start to Cheat when does it end? It does not and sooner or later you end up with a Dictator and then lost of support for the Government and once the Government loses support Civil war or Revolution. The best way to avoid both is to permit an fair election (Which is what happened in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s, as things became worse and worse the ruling elites realized they had to have the support of the masses to make changes, but to get that support fair elections were needed, thus to avoid revolution fair elections were held knowing the opposition parties would win). Similar to Latin America, if the GOP continues to Cheat, it will go to one party rule and then Dictatorship. That Dictator will rule for some years but sooner or later he will need the support of ALL of his subjects, but the only way to get that support is to hold FAIR elections. Thus the Dictator will be overthrown in a Revolution or an Election. The elites will prefer an election (any revolution will lead to a more radical change than an election thus the elites will prefer an election over revolution) and thus the Government will come Crashing down (look at Argentina for Example).

Thus election Cheating is a doomed strategy, but the only one that keeps the GOP in power so the GOP is embracing it. How long this will last no one can say, but sooner or later the GOP will lose power.

[BeFree]

7. That's some fine history, slug

Refined and edited, your story could be made into some kind of reference for the uninformed. C'mon, spill the beans, did you write that or copy it?

Whatever, the GOP, as soon as we all realize that it has corrupted elections, will be relegated to the trash heap. They have, and will continue to steal elections. They have no other recourse since they can't honestly win.

[happyslug]

10. No, I wrote it 4:00 am in the morning when I should have been asleep.

It wrote itself, and I rambled on toward the end, but it is based on my observations and my reading of history so I can NOT blame it on anyone but myself.

The real question is how long will this situation last? Will the GOP prefer Power no matter the costs? Or will the GOP accept defeat if that is the will of the People of the US? Bush prefer Power and care less about the costs, but the GOP rank and file is the key. They want to win and rule, but the rank and file know they can only do so with the support of ALL OF THE PEOPLE (Thus elections must be as honest as possible). The problem is the elite of the GOP prefer power no matter the costs. Will enough GOP rank and file desert the GOP to prevent the elite of the GOP ruling on the base of power only (i.e. force the GOP elite to accept honest elections do to lack of rank and file Republicans) or will the power elite keep enough of the rank and file to rule till you have a revolution? Thus the real question is NOT the Democratic Party but what will happen to the Republican base. If that base disappears the GOP will fall, if it holds fast the GOP will go into Dictatorship like Germany under the Nazi.

[mod mom]

15. Thank you for that, happyslug! Have you read Andrew Gumbel's excellent

book "Steal this Vote"?

[happyslug]

17. No I have not.

But I have read other articles on how the GOP stole both the 2000 and 2004 elections.

Now as to "stealing elections" I always remember my high School History book when it came to Big City political Machines and their manipulation of the Vote (i.e. Cheating). They always quote Bosses from the late 1800s but NEVER identify their party. You get the impression their were Democrats BUT ALL OF THEM WERE REPUBLICANS. Prior to the 1930s most Cities were controlled by the GOP (New York City was the big exception to this rule and that was do to Tammy Hall). My Home town of Pittsburgh was a GOP stronghold till the 1920s (When it converted to the Democrats) and this was true even while the rest of Western Pennsylvania was a Democratic Stronghold. Yes, the Democrats after they obtained power in the big cities had their bosses and voting "problems" but no where near what the GOP had done when their had control of the Big Cities. The GOP always make a big deal of this Big-City "Corruption" but minimize their own voting problems (For example one of the Reason Nixon did NOT challenge Kennedy's election in 1960 was so to the fact that the GOP had been as bad in Southern Illinois as the Democrats had been in Chicago, something Nixon did NOT want to come out for it would hurt the GOP ability to care suburbanites of Big-City Corruption when the GOP was doing worse).

Election cheating has always occurred, but almost never enough to switch anything but a very close election (and when I mean close I mean closer than Bush defeated Gore and Kerry or even Kennedy's defeat of Nixon). Bush's "Victories" are pushing the envelope of how far you can Cheat AND Still hold office. Any higher level of Cheating and the GOP will be discredited as a party (In fact the level of Cheating is so high that people are attacking Bush for his "Victories"). Thus the real question is what will happen in 2006 and 2008? Will the People return the GOP or will the result of the last election lead to a very high Democratic Vote? A very high Democratic Vote is needed in 2006 to overcome the Gerrymandering of House Seats in addition to defeating the affect of cheating. In 2008 we need a high turnout to defeat the cheating.

[liam_laddie]

18. Just finished it...

First 60 percent is the history of elections in this country ~ 1787-1970.
The remainder is "modern" history, up through last year. It's sobering
reading all the way. You can find it used online for around $10.
It's a must-have on the citizen-activist's bookshelf.

[mod mom]

19. I agree- must have book.

[babsbunny]

3. Let's see what our possible future Governor's feel about HB 3

and the stolen elections! www.tedstrickland.com or www.bobforohio.com. Green or Dem? Who will uncover the fraud? Who will fight for our Democracy? Let's ask!

[dennisnyc]

4. k&r

[mod mom]

5. Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections Press Release:

Ohio Senate Rules Committee DEPRIVES VOTERS OF RIGHTS
AND IGNORES THE REAL THREAT OF ELECTION FRAUD --
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES.

H.B. 3 Ignores all Citizen Input in Passing H.B. 3:

CASE Ohio, Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections,
www.caseohio.org, warns of Increased Voter
Disenfranchisement, the Dangers of Electronic Voting
Machines, and the Unconstitutionality of Denying the
Right to Register Voters and Challenge Election
Results.


COLUMBUS, OH - THE OHIO SENATE RULES COMMITTEE
DEPRIVED OHIO VOTERS OF RIGHTS AND IGNORED THE REAL
THREAT OF ELECTION FRAUD -- ELECTRONIC VOTING
MACHINES. On December 7, 2005, (ISN"T THAT THE
ANNIVERSARY OF PEARL HARBOR? IF SO WE SHOULD REFERENCE
THAT AMERICANS WERE ATTACKED AGAIN) the Rules
Committee of the Ohio Senate approved H.B. 3 despite
months of strong opposition from voting rights groups
such as CASE, the League of Women Voters, (name other
groups) and myriad individuals.  The four Democrat
committee members refused to take part in the final
vote and walked out to protest the Republican
steamrolling of their legislative colleagues and the
public.

HB 3 requires, among other things, that voters present
a current, government-issued ID with a current
address. This requirement alone will affect hundreds
of thousands of voters and will disenfranchise many
tens of thousands of them. Students, the elderly,
youth, the homeless, and recently moved families will
be required to produce alternate forms of ID. The
result will be confusion, frustration, discouragement,
and possibly anger directed toward the Ohio Senators
who forced this bill into law.

HB 3 also makes it impossibly difficult for voting
advocacy organizations to register new voters by
making the process extremely slow and expensive and
punishing workers who make a mistake with the threat
of a felony penalty. Workers who could be working
state-wide to register voters are now required to
register with every Board of Elections in the state,
take a test from every board, and return any
registration to the board of the newly registered
voter, as opposed to mailing the registrations in.
This makes registration drives at gatherings like the
Ohio State Fair and similar events impossible.

HB 3 also, in a deadly move, removes a process to
audit the electronic voting machines, the touchscreen
"black box" machines, which are proven to be prone to
errors and susceptible to hacking, as recognized by
the recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report, GAO
05-956 "Federal Efforts to Improve Security and
Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under
Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed."


HB 3 has destroyed voters' rights  to challenge
election results.

The Republicans in the Ohio legislature, while
focusing their efforts on prohibiting access to voter
registration and voting, failed to address the real
threat of election fraud - Electronic Voting Machines.
The General Accounting Office, (GAO) recently released
a scathing107 page report on electronic voting
machines in our country.  The report supports what
CASE has been claiming for the past two years - that
electronic voting machines are not secure, not
accountable, not transparent, not accurate, and not
certifiable. A bipartisan panel, which included both
Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and
Democratic Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) released a
joint news release regarding the GAO report. Most
community news sources have not yet made these
important findings widely available to the public.
CASE advises all Ohio voters to call, email, or FAX
your State Senator today to tell them not to support
HB 3.

CASE advises all Ohio voters to attend the Senate
session at the Ohio Statehouse Tuesday, December 13,
to sit in the gallery while the full Senate considers
the passage of HB 3, at 1:30 PM.

[mod mom]

6. PLS ATTEND: Tues 12/13 1:30 pm @ Ohio Statehouse !

[autorank]

8. Excellent! This needs to be supported. Where is DNC. the OH Dem party?

DNC supposedly has a "new" group dedicated to voting rights and fighting voter suppression etc. Well this is a test case. Why can't Dean speak out? Why are people there doing little or nothing?

The Democratic party needs to get this notice shoved in their face.


Send it to them too!

[Imperialism Inc.]

9. *sigh* Ohio is a mess.

I know because I helped out with the Reform Now group who had election reform measures on the ballot in November. Though the response I always got from people was positive, the amendments went down in defeat anyway. As far as doing something , I'm personally doing what little I can. I've given to an organization that is lobbying on this issue and I inform as many as I can. I unfortunately can't attend the protest as I have no sick days left and have an important client to prepare for on Wednesday anyway.
At any rate, there are people doing what they can. An organization I have donated to in the past just came knocking the other night to get signatures for a petition against this. Trudging out in the freezing cold and snow to do so. But, like I said, Ohio is a mess. GOP controlled and full of backward thinking red-necks to boot.

[freedomfries]

11. kick & check the fasting divinity student's letter

Posted on OH State Forum:
Hello everyone-

I am now three days into the hunger strike and, after spending over 20 hours outside the statehouse in the same spot during those three days, have found it impossible to stay warm, no matter how much extra clothing I put on and no matter how many hand warmers I had. Today, at noon, I admitted to myself that I could not continue fasting AND being
outside.

The strategy around this demonstration has now shifted. I am committed to keep fasting until Tuesday when the Ohio Senate votes on Sub House Bill 3. I also intend to be in a state of prayer throughout the day during the next three days. However, I will have to cut down significantly on the length of time I am outside the statehouse.

As I got home from the statehouse a little bit ago, the thought that was on my mind was, Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief. My heart and my soul keep telling me that, as our Ohio state motto says, With God, all things are possible, but the last few days have been trying. I believe that the Spirit of God is always with us, that the Spirit is bigger and more powerful than I could ever imagine, that the Spirit can
work on and transform even the hardest of hearts. And I believe that democracy allows for the Spirit to work in that way. But I still need a lot of help in my unbelief. I still need a lot of help believing in that Hope beyond hope and in the true power of God working through individuals.

I ask you all to help God help me with my unbelief.

On Tuesday at 1pm, the Ohio Senate will be voting on HB3. If passed, the bill would undoubtedly leave a large segment of our population without a voice – namely, the poorest and most marginalized among us and it would give permission for other states to follow suit.

Friends, I ask you to join me on Tuesday at 10am at the statehouse to talk with our state senators to lay bare our spirits and to speak from our hearts to tell them why this bill is wrong. They need to hear that heart-voice, and they need to hear it from us.
Imagine what that would be like hundreds of people of faith going to the statehouse and flooding the offices of our senators, talking to them on a spiritual level, treating them like the children of God that they are, yet explaining to them the wrong of the situation.

I know it is finals week and we are all busily trying to get our papers done, but please come to the statehouse at 10am on Tuesday, and bring your congregation with you. You might be thinking that you don't know enough about House Bill 3 to talk to senators about it please write me back if that's how you feel and I will get you more information ASAP. It will be our presence more than anything that, I believe, will transform their hearts.

Where: Ohio Statehouse; corner of Broad St. and High St. in Columbus.
When: Tuesday, December 10, 10:00am-noon. (posters note: Assuming he means Dec. 13 as this was posted Sat. Dec. 10.)

Meet in the rotunda of the Statehouse (right inside the main entrance of the statehouse off of High Street). Talking points on HB3 will be provided on Tuesday. We will team up when we talk to the senators, so you won't be alone. Call me on my cell phone at any time from now until
then [phone].

Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.

In hope,
Jonathan Meier

[mod mom]

13. RON amendments passing/failing depended on Blackwell. You saw

what he did in '04. Did you really think he would allow initiatives that would ruin his chances pass? I don't want to sound snotty, because I also worked in getting them passed, but the men at the top were unwilling to discuss the fraud that occurred in '04 and of course, history repeats itself!

[mod mom]

12. DFA Announcement: (Central Ohio) w petition

members of Central Ohio Democracy for America Meetup:

PLEASE JOIN DEMOCRATIC STATEWIDE CANDIDATES AND OTHER
PROGRESSIVE GROUPS IN OPPOSITION TO VOTER DISCRIMINATION BILL

Banding together out of concern over voter suppression, Ohio
Democratic candidates for statewide office urged the Ohio
Senate today to vote down a bill with voter suppression
provisions such as stringent ID requirements.

Among the candidates joining together in protest of the bill’s
provisions are Major Paul Hackett and Rep. Sherrod Brown in the
U.S. Senate race; Rep. Ted Strickland in the Ohio Gubernatorial
race; Subodh Chandra and St. Sen. Marc Dann in the Ohio
Attorney General’s race; and Jennifer Brunner in the Ohio
Secretary of State race.

Ms. Brunner initiated an online petition that has generated
hundreds of signatures since Thursday night asking the Ohio
Senate to reconsider provisions of H.B. 3.

Among the concerns about the bill are requirements for ID to be
shown at the polls that matches residency. This has led to
concerns over:

-Disabled voter who can’t sign their own name has to execute a
power of attorney in order to vote
-Every time you vote you must have an i.d. on hand
-The i.d. requirement must have your current address, if not
you have to cast a provisional ballot
-Many college identification cards don’t list an address
-Makes it harder to get initiatives on the ballot by increasing
the signature requirement to file a petition
-There is not a clear, uniform standard for counting
provisional ballots in Ohio

SIGN THE PETITION
AGAINST VOTER DISCRIMINATION
http://www.jenniferbrunner.com/petition.asp

[bonito]

14. Kick n/t

[freedomfries]

16. kick& pass on

to your OH friends
http://www.jenniferbrunner.com/petition.asp

[mod mom]

20. OH Senate Dem Caucus will address HB 3@ 12:30 on Dec 13:

MEDIA ADVISORY
 
Event: Press conference prior to vote of House Bill 3 in the Ohio Senate
 
Date:Tuesday, December 13, 2005
 
Time:12:30 p.m.
 
Location:Ohio Senate Minority Conference Room, 2nd Floor Statehouse
 
Details:Members of the Ohio Senate Democratic Caucus will address the concerns that remain in the ‘Voter Suppression Bill’- House Bill 3. The legislation will be voted on the Senate floor tomorrow and sent to the Ohio House for concurrence on Wednesday.
 
Contacts:Ohio Senate Democratic Communications Dept.
                    Amanda Conn [phone]
                    Melissa Fazekas [phone]