Posted on 12/16/2022 3:59:13 AM PST by cotton1706
Ohio legislators sent Republican Gov. Mike DeWine a GOP-backed bill Thursday that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls and allow fewer days to request absentee ballots or vote early in person.
The measure, which would replace a state law that lets voters present other documents on Election Day, such as utility bills or bank statements, was passed by the House in a 55-32 vote.
The bill would also eliminate in-person early voting on the eve of Election Day and trim the amount of time voters can request and submit absentee ballots.
Legislators had considered a pair of competing measures and ended up sending DeWine the more restrictive one.
DeWine said after the vote that he would need to read the legislation before he decided whether to sign it into law.
“The last two secretaries of state have both said that we have a very good system in the state of Ohio,” DeWine said. “It’s easy to vote, hard to cheat, so I think we already have a good system in the state of Ohio.”
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He's probably anxious to protect Democrat Sherrod Brown's Senate seat in '24, who is toast if Democrats can't cheat.
A good start but mail in ballots and ballot harvesting needs to be stopped.
What we need is a Conservative harvesting program in every church in the country. When we use their weapons against them they will get behind stopping the scheme
We’ve always had to present ID when voting. ?? 🤦♀️
Ohio is not one of the states that have mail balloting.
These prove nothing about the person presenting them. Did they have to present ID to validate the utility bill?
It’s about time and should be done nation wide..may help to stop DemoRats from cheating.
I mailed my ballot in this last election.
I had to sign the inner envelope and I had to provide a one of the following with my ballot;
last for dig.of SS#, drivers licence#, or copy of a bill or stub showing my name and my address on it.
They use No-excuse absentee voting which is not the same as mailing ballots to everyone on the list.
“What we need is a Conservative harvesting program in every church in the country.”
It worked for one or two GOP candidates in CA last month, I believe.
We definitely have to do that. Catching older people in church is a good idea. The ones I know won’t miss church for any reason if possible, but might not be inclined to go out to vote.
“utility bills or bank statements...”
“These prove nothing about the person presenting them.”
Really. It sounds like they aren’t serious about getting tough on cheating because this provides no remedy for the problem.
I’ve been asked to show picture ID to vote here in Ohio for as long as I’ve been here (13 years).
Does does the use of RCV-enabled voting machines, early voting, mail-in voting...
Ohio has all of those.
This is racist!
White people are too stupid to get photo IDs! 🤡
He needs to sign it, period.
A document from a corporation that would bill you, or a bank statement would have to be forged to cheat in this way. That forgery would be fraud (Actual criminal fraud, not just ‘election fraud’). That’s a whole different level of cheating and would also easily caught if done on a large scale. So it makes it tougher to mass produce fake ballots.
They have at least 3 or 4 levels of security from what I saw.
First, the ballots were mailed out to those voters who requested them. They weren’t mass produced generically and they weren’t mass mailed generically.
2) Each ballot was coded from what I could see. IE: they were serialized and unique.
3) You had to sign. Signature matching is a good way to sniff out problems.
4) You had to provide a document (if you didn’t provide your drivers license number or part of your social). This matched your name along with the address on the voting record. The license or SS numbers basically proved your specific identity, but so does the document or statement.
There goes the All-Star Game.
This is a good step ONLY if they ban mail in voting and early voting. Up to 70% of ballots are mailed in early with nothing but a nebulous signature that is easily faked and is usually not checked.
Yep, agreed. I’ve been shouting this for awhile.
Hat tip to Ohio now the rest of the nation needs to follow better yet it needs to be a federal law period.
A reason should be required. Folks who cannot make it to the polls getting absentees are just fine with me. But those who are too lazy should not be voting anyway.
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