A million Ohio voters didn’t get absentee ballot mailing
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A million Ohio voters didn’t get absentee ballot mailing
Darrel Rowland The Columbus Dispatch • Sunday October 2, 2016
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s decision not to mail absentee ballot applications to 13 percent of the state’s registered voters has drawn fire and raised questions.
The news release said, “Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted today announced his office will begin mailing absentee ballot applications to voters statewide this weekend.”
What it didn’t say was that more than a million of Ohio’s 7.7 million registered voters wouldn’t get the mailing, because Husted’s office had pared the list beforehand.
The 1,035,795 voters left out fall into two categories:
• 650,730 who have changed their address. This includes 568,456 who moved within Ohio; they were sent cards asking them to update their address. The 82,274 who moved out of state were mailed information on how to cancel their Ohio registration.
• 385,065 who did not vote in either the 2012 or 2014 elections and have not responded to queries about their address from their county board of elections.
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