The effective date next week means the new law will apply to voters participating in local and county elections taking place this year. Its fuller test, however, will occur next year in presidential, U.S. Senate and statewide races.
next week requiring Ohioans to present a state-issued photo ID to vote, whether early or on Election Day.
The law also shortens the window within which voters must apply for an absentee ballot to vote from seven days to three days before Election Day, and it similarly shortens the grace period for counting late arriving ballots from 10 days after Election Day to four days. Gov. Mike DeWine signed the new law, passed solely with Republican support, early this year. Most Republicans who supported the bill asserted that Ohio elections already are secure but justified the changes as a means of ensuring “election integrity.”
On Wednesday, the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan voter advocacy organization that opposed the bill, hosted a series of speakers at a press conference raising awareness about the new voting requirements.
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