Ohio Lawmakers Send New Election Day Deadline for Absentee Ballots Law to Governor

Ohio lawmakers send new Election Day deadline for absentee ballots law to governor

Josh Williams and Theresa Gavarone supported revisions to Ohio’s election laws as the state moves to eliminate absentee ballot grace periods.

Ohio lawmakers send new Election Day deadline for absentee ballots law to governor

Josh Williams and Theresa Gavarone supported revisions to Ohio’s election laws as the state moves to eliminate absentee ballot grace periods.

SOS Johnson Wants to Slash Absentee Voting Period for Local Elections

Republican Secretary of State Monae Johnson is helping her party’s war on voting access by proposing to reduce the absentee voting period. She can’t mess with the 46-day absentee voting period—the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act requires at least 45 days of absentee voting in elections for federal offices to protect the franchise for our brave men and women defending democracy around the globe and other patriots away from the…

Ohio lawmakers send new Election Day deadline for absentee ballots law to governor

Ohio lawmakers approved SB 293, ending the absentee ballot grace period and adding voter registration purges, moves critics say will increase provisional voting and risk disenfranchising eligible voters.

Ohio lawmakers send new Election Day deadline for absentee ballots law to governor

Election workers process ballots. (Photo by Carl Payne, States Newsroom.)Ohio lawmakers voted Wednesday to shorten the deadline again for returning absentee ballots — removing any grace period and invalidating all ballots that arrive after Election Day. That measure, Ohio Senate Bill 293, is now on its way to the governor. As recently as 2022, Ohio voters had a 10-day grace period for absentee ballots post-marked by Election Day to arrive at the…

Ohio Republicans vote to end grace period for mailed ballots

Ohioans will face an earlier deadline to return their mail ballots in future elections, under a fast-tracked law change Republican lawmakers approved on Wednesday under pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration.  Senate Bill 293 requires absentee ballots to arrive at county elections offices by Election Day in order to count. Ohio law for years has allowed straggling mail ballots up to four days after the election – as long as they h…