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Opponents of Ohio ‘voter suppression bill’ short nearly 10,000 signatures for referendum, get extension

By | 11.15.11 | 10:17 am

Opponents of Ohio’s so-called “voter suppression bill” have been given 10 additional days to collect 10,000 valid signatures to place the bill, House Bill 194, before voters on the 2012 ballot.

Former Ohio Sec. of State Brunner weighs in on absentee ballot application ban

By | 11.07.11 | 6:05 pm

Ohio’s former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner stopped short of criticizing her replacement, but made it clear they disagreed on the importance of absentee ballot application mailings.

Establishment Candidates Tested in Tonight’s Primaries

By | 05.04.10 | 12:24 pm

Being a “party favorite” in an election has been more of a hindrance than a help in some elections this year (right, Charlie Crist?). So will this trend continue?

Tonight’s primary season kickoff elections in North Carolina, Ohio and Indiana include several tests of whether party favorites still reign or More…

Memories of ‘General Betray-Us’

By | 11.30.09 | 4:26 pm

The National Republican Senatorial Committee furthers the not-so-subtle strategy of supporting an Afghan surge while making Gen. Stanley McChrystal, not President Obama, the visionary whom Americans must support. In a press release, they blast Jennifer Brunner, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio (whose fundraising has been flagging) More…

A Myth of Voter Fraud

By | 10.28.08 | 6:00 am

Earlier this month, Republicans in Ohio lost their lawsuit challenging a state rule that allows voters to register and vote early on the same day. But the state party had no intention of conceding the point. GOP officials demanded records from all 88 county boards of election identifying every person More…

GOP Loses Challenge to Early Ohio Voting

By | 10.01.08 | 9:17 am

Ohio voters went to the polls yesterday for the first day of early voting, exercising a right in Ohio that the state’s Republicans had fought hard to defeat.

Because of an overlap between the beginning of absentee voting 35 days before Election Day, which started yesterday, and the Oct. 6 More…