How many times have you looked at your ballot in dismay and said, “I don’t know who any of these Irishmen are.”
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner hopes to solve the problem with a new voter guide that recently went live on her website (www.sos.state.oh.us/). It’s part of an effort to expand the office’s role from encouraging registration to actually motivating you to show up. Plus, it helps combat the old “vote for all the Russos” approach, which isn’t working out so well these days.
This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2010.
