{"id":169,"date":"2020-03-25T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T13:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/press-releases\/voting-rights-groups-push-back-on-senate-bill-294\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T13:26:57","slug":"voting-rights-groups-push-back-on-senate-bill-294","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/press\/voting-rights-groups-push-back-on-senate-bill-294\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Rights Groups Push Back on Senate Bill 294"},"template":"","class_list":["post-169","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Ohio's voting rights advocacy groups challenge the legislature to make sure Ohio's primary election works for all voters. ","featured_image":"","press_type":146,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7876}"],"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":38},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<b>To: <\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaker Householder, Minority Leader Sykes, Senate President Obhof,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minority Leader Kenny Yuko, all members of the Ohio General Assembly\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>CC: <\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Statehouse Press Corps\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>RE:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opposition to Senate Bill 294 and minimum acceptable steps to ensure\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">every eligible Ohioan can successfully cast a ballot<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>From:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACLU of Ohio, All Voting is Local, Common Cause Ohio, Faith in Public Life,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">League of Women Voters of Ohio, Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ohio Council of Churches, Ohio Student Association, Ohio Votes<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We recognize that there is not a perfect way to conduct an election during a global pandemic, but we will not support any proposal that doesn't include the following:<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A final Primary Election Day that allows as much time as possible for voters to participate in Ohio\u2019s cumbersome, inefficient vote-by-mail process, while also respecting communities that have levies\/issues on the ballot. April 28 is an unacceptable, unworkable date for the primary. At the earliest, we suggest mid May.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An extended voter registration deadline to continue until 30 days prior to the final Primary Election Day.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A fully funded vote-by-mail system with pre-paid postage for voters to return absentee ballot requests and absentee ballots.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Removal of barriers to Ohio's current vote-by-mail system that disenfranchises countless Ohioans every election: abandon rigid, unscientific signature matching protocols; require Boards of Elections to call\/email voters to resolve minor clerical errors, if that contact info is available; and count all ballots received up to ten days after Election Day, if there is a postmark on\/before Election Day or if no postmark is present.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reduction in processing time for absentee ballot requests by providing funding for BOEs to secure temporary staff.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Options for in-person voting, such as extended early voting or in-person voting by appointment.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">extensive state-sponsored education campaign to make sure Ohio voters have the information they need to vote by mail and have their votes properly counted.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this unprecedented situation, it is critical to balance the needs of various communities and stakeholders. 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