"It is readily apparent that the words “deliver” and “transmitted to” were used interchangeably by the General Assembly. It is also plain that delivery or transmission of an absentee ballot can be accomplished using a drop box..."
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"...that puts the ballot securely into the custody of the director of a board of elections, or by actually handing the ballot over to the director face-to-face, or delivering it to his or her staff. No statute says that delivery must occur with only one box per county...."
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"...No statute says that delivery would be improper to a drop box controlled by a board and placed at a safe location separate and apart from the main board office. The statute is silent on such matters. The Secretary cannot slip new words into the law...."
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"...Based upon the evidence in this case, the court concludes R.C. 3509.05(A) is ambiguous. It does not support the Secretary’s announced one ballot drop box limit...."
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"...A voter is personally delivering their absentee ballot to the director of their board of elections whether they drop it in the only available box, or potentially deposit the ballot in one of multiple boxes under the control of their elections board...."
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"...Either way, ballots are delivered. This is true regardless of the location at which a box is placed in the county."
Exactly what we've said from the beginning of this unnecessary battle.
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Imagine if right after last year’s train derailment in East Palestine, an Ohio agency found that the chemicals leaking from those railcars posed an imminent danger to people in the area…
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and then ordered that the railcar leak be plugged immediately.
Then imagine that another Ohio governmental body (controlled by railroad interests) overturned that decision, allowing the leak to begin again and continue unabated for another six months.
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Well, thanks to some good reporting by @clevelanddotcom , we now know that what I just described actually happened in Athens County, Ohio over the past six months.
The leak was not from a derailment, but from injection wells…
Just over five years ago, after several years of pain, a disc in my lower back ruptured (in Cleveland…it was a long drive home).
Surgery followed.
The weeks of recovery spanned April of 2019.
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And unable to do much, I got restless.
When I was able to walk around the first of the month, I hobbled into the art store where I’d always bought small gifts for my sons Jack and Charlie (then 4 and 1) and I asked: “if I wanted to paint a painting, what do I need to buy?”
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We walked around the store and bought some canvasses, paint, brushes and a few other things.
Then I went home, and began playing around with my new art supplies.
Back to 1864, the days of
bloodletting and blistering!
The AZ ruling is shocking.
But also horribly symbolic. The GOP wants to take women back to an age of near-zero freedom.
But that also gives us an opportunity to go on OFFENSE.
WATCH, RT &
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All across America, basic GOP policy is to send women back in time—to an era where they were, at best, second class citizens. With little freedom. Few rights.
That’s the terrible news and sobering reality.
But there’s a glimmer of hope amid all of this.
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And it’s that they can’t hide their extremism anymore. They can’t run from it, as hard as they (even Donald Trump) might try.
Which means we can fight back. And stop it. This year!
In 2024, in Arizona, we can enshrine reproductive freedom into the Constitution.
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round trip drive to St. Louis to access the closest specialist covered by her insurance.
At one point, she “had depleted her lifetime fertility insurance benefits available through her previous workplace,” so she had to change jobs to continue her care.
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The explosion of universal vouchers in states around the country is nothing short of a five-alarm fire, consuming both public education and democracy, and spreading rapidly.
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Every month, we see the cost of these new, unrestricted private vouchers exploding—skyrocketing toward $1 billion in Ohio, already above that in Arizona, and not far behind in other states.