Ohio AG Thwarts Voting Rights Amendment
From today’s AP News: Republican Attorney General Dave Yost told the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday that rushing a lawsuit filed against him by a coalition of civil rights organizations…
Ohio Republicans Enact ‘Alarming’ New Voting Restrictions
From today’s The Guardian: Ohio Republicans quietly enacted a measure earlier this month that imposes sweeping new restrictions on voting access in the state, including more stringent voter ID requirements,…
Ohio is Part of a Shameful Trend to Erect Barriers to Voting in America
From today’s Columbus Dispatch: At the heart of our country’s political debates are questions about our values and perspectives on legislating our deeper beliefs about right and wrong, relationships and…
Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
From today’s New York Times: The clock was ticking for Jen Miller. The state of Ohio had released names of 235,000 voters it planned to purge from voter rolls in…
Drive Against Gerrymandering Finds New Life in Ballot Initiatives
From today’s New York Times: The movement to take politics out of setting legislative district boundaries seemed to suffer a grievous, and perhaps even mortal, blow this spring when the…
OH voters reject Republican agenda to limit public unions
In a stinging defeat of the Republican’s national agenda to undermine workers’ rights, voters in the state of Ohio roundly rejected a ballot initiative that would have limited public unions.…