Ohio will extend the deadline for requesting absentee ballots for voters who are “unforeseeably confined or hospitalized” and offer curbside voting.
for voters who are “unforeseeably confined or hospitalized” and offer curbside voting for anyone concerned about entering their polling place as the state’s primary election rolls on during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
A third part of the directive includes a recommendation from the Ohio Department of Health that voters in line be spaced apart at least 4 feet and to spread voting machines apart “as much as possible within the polling location.” Voting rights groups have been urging LaRose’s office to loosen restrictions on absentee voting and temporarily change other rules to make it easier for people to vote during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Those groups also want the deadline to request an absentee ballot to be extended to 3 p.m. on Election Day for those who are “susceptible to COVID-19,” those at higher risk of contracting the virus and those whose polling places were moved. LaRose responded late Friday, saying that some of the coalition’s requests already were in place while others would require a change in state law. The Ohio General Assembly would have to modify state law to extend the deadline to accept absentee ballot applications and to require mailing absentee ballots to all active voters who have not requested one, he wrote.
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