Ohio is pondering a short list of proposed reforms to adopt by summer in advance of the November election. They include allowing voters to request mail-in ballots online and increasing the number of dropbox locations for ballots. Groups like the League of Women Voters want more, including moving the deadline to request an absentee ballot back to the last week before the election, something Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has indicated will probably not happen.
Meanwhile, Michigan election officials announces this week the state will mail absentee ballot applications to all 7.7 million active voters there to make it easier for them to vote without showing up in person to the August and November elections.
“By mailing applications, we have ensured that no Michigander has to choose between their health and their right to vote,” Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in a news release. “Voting by mail is easy, convenient, safe, and secure, and every voter in Michigan has the right to do it.”
Public health officials have warned that the coronavirus likely will remain a threat until there is a vaccine, and epidemiologists are bracing for a second surge in the fall.
For the May 5 elections, every voter was mailed an absentee ballot application. The state saw a record turnout in the roughly 50 elections held across 33 counties in May, with nearly a quarter of voters casting ballots. About 99% of them voted by mail or in a drop box. The average turnout for elections in May was 12% between 2010 and 2019.
Voters will receive instructions on how to vote by mail. Voters can also receive an absentee ballot application at Michigan.gov/Vote.
“The vast majority of voters across the political spectrum want the option to vote by mail,” Benson said. “Mailing applications to all registered voters is one of the ways that we are ensuring Michigan’s elections will continue to be safe, accurate and secure.”
This article appears in May 13-19, 2020.
Too bad this wasn’t made public last week. As the patios and bars open, the MAGA-hatters will focus more on where their next beers can be obtained while cuddling bare-faced with total strangers, and less on the horrors of allowing all voters equal access to the ballot box.
If 3rd world voters can trot their asses with a voter I’d to the polls so can lazy assed Americans.
You know, I never understood why you have to get on the Internet to request a request for an absentee ballot, then wait for it to be delivered, then fill it out, send it back by mail, and then wait for the actual ballot to be delivered by mail, and then send the actual ballot back.
Sheesh.
At the very least, can’t we just be able to request a ballot online, rather than just the application for the ballot?
maybe if there were multiple independent companies checking the results and they had to match but most likely the dems are just going to blatantly cheat by filling out forms of people that didn’t submit or just changing the results.
Good for MI, tell that orange faced cowardly moron to go pound salt. He’s terrified that we’ll see record voter turnout in response to the veritable shit show his presidency has been. He’s vulnerable and he knows it, he said specifically “Imagine if all 50 states did this, you’d never have another Republican elected in this country.”
Translation: “If everyone who’s eligible to vote, can vote without bs Rethuglican obstruction and voter disenfranchisement efforts, we’ll lose.” I couldn’t agree more and it can’t happen soon enough.
Also… A big LOL at Dems cheating. Republicans invented and perfected gerrymandering districts to get their candidates elected, meanwhile all the Republican howling and crying about voter fraud still has yet to produce more than a small handful of actual cases. Pull your head from your posterior please…
The king of deflection will continue to get support from old people and racists by using catch phrases and fear mongering. Sadly, he knows the effectiveness of this and will likely get to fleece hard working people and make billions for his final 4. How any person who earned their money can support this embarrassing family is beyond me.
“How any person who earned their money can support this embarrassing family is beyond me.”
Good question. I’d say the head wing nut if far more embarrassing then the rest of the family combined. But then there is the first part of your question – “How any person who earned their money can support….”
And you just about answered your own question there. Most people that ‘earned there money would like to keep it. The dems want to take it and give it away from the people that do earn it, to the people that dont earn it.