Posted on 01/15/2023 6:28:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s restrictive new election law significantly shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received — despite no evidence that the extended timeline has led to fraud or any other problems — and that change is angering active-duty members of the military and their families because of its potential to disenfranchise them.
The pace of ballot counting after Election Day has become a target of conservatives egged on by former President Donald Trump. He has promoted a false narrative since losing the 2020 election that fluctuating results as late-arriving mail-in ballots are tallied is a sign of fraud.
Republican lawmakers said during debate on the Ohio legislation that even if Trump’s claims aren’t true, the skepticism they have caused among conservatives about the accuracy of election results justifies imposing new limits.
The new law reduces the number of days for county election boards to include mailed ballots in their tallies from 10 days after Election Day to four. Critics say that could lead more ballots from Ohio’s military voters to miss the deadline and get tossed.
This issue isn’t confined to Ohio.
Three other states narrowed their post-election windows for accepting mail ballots last session, according to data from the nonpartisan Voting Rights Lab. Similar moves pushed by Republican lawmakers are being proposed or discussed this year in Wisconsin, New Jersey, California and other states.
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“What kind of society do we call ourselves if we are disenfranchising people from the rights that they are over there protecting?” said Willis Gordon, a Navy veteran and veterans affairs chair of the Ohio NAACP’s executive committee."
Oh lord's, we's should just keep on electin until dey Democrat wins! *SPIT*
The propaganda AP has found democrat military families to push their position. You can believe nothing from the AP
Worker shortage?
How many are on unemployment in MN??
Probably way more than should be. Honestly I don’t understand where the necessity for all these new multi unit complexes that have sprung up in the last 6 months is coming from, but if everything else around here is any indication, well there’s no one to pay for them because they aren’t working.
Is half or more of the population on unemployment, day trading or dealing drugs so they can afford to not work?
Beats me.
The main access to info is this dumb machine under my fingertips right now.
I have found out that it lies to me occasionally/sometimes/too much/all the time.
The repeated claim is Boomer retirement and lack of immigration. I find the latter claim ridiculous.
Oh, I get that. I think mail-in ballots should be very very limited, not like what we have now.
My husband was in hospice care in early Nov. 2020 and in no way could make it to a polling venue. He filled out his mail-in ballot and wanted to make sure his vote for Trump was “counted.” He died a few days later.
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