ProgressOhio

2,592* emails have been sent by Progress Ohio members to legislators urging a "no" vote on Ohio Senate Bill 380. The email campaign targets Jon Husted and the 15 members of the House State Government & Elections Committee.

Put simply, lame ducks in the Ohio legislature are doing everything they can to leave a legacy of more difficult and confusing elections systems while they still have the chance.

With S.B. 380, they’re targeting early voting. Instead of a straightforward system with one deadline for everyone, Senate Republicans would create a web of deadlines, rules and regulations.  Under this new scheme, early voting would be harder, while challenging voters and their ballots would be easier.

Senate Bill 380 would:

Create three different deadlines for absentee voting, while eliminating same day registration in Ohio
Force boards of elections to use error-prone government databases for all new registrations
Allow partisan operatives to challenge and discard absentee ballots for purely technical reasons

Want to help with the effort to stop Senate Bill 380? Click here.

*10:05 PM UPDATE:  Make that 2,642 emails sent to Husted and the House State Government and Elections Committee.
10:47 PM UPDATE: 2,722.
11:27 PM UPDATE: 2,786.
11:46 PM UPDATE: 2,850.