BREAKING: for months, Ohio's SOS Larose has claimed that he wanted to expand drop boxes in Ohio counties, but that Ohio law prevented him from doing so.
Just now, all three judges in our drop box appeal agreed with us that nothing in Ohio law prevents him from adding more.
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"We agree with the trial court that the Secretary's interpretation of R.C. 3509.05 is not reasonable and that the statute neither prescribes nor prohibits ballot drop boxes at locations other than the boards of elections....
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"...If, as appellees argue, the Secretary wants to permit additional drop boxes, he has the authority to do so and nothing in this decision prohibits him from rescinding Directive 2020-16 and issuing a new directive accordingly."
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Now that the law is clarified....for the third time....as allowing more drop boxes, we call on Frank Larose to make good on his public and private commitment to add drop boxes.
There is still time to add them for the final weeks of this election.
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At the risk of souring your Sunday mood, I have an update on a story from my recent visit to Athens.
It’s quick. Read on…
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The basic story I shared was that Ohio’s five-member Ohio Oil and Gas Commission voted to re-open an injection well that had been found leaking dangerous chemicals, which led to six more months of leaking.
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And I exposed how the makeup of the commission (all appointed by the Governor) which made that decision comprised a stacked deck in favor of industry.
Ohio Attorney General Yost truly thinks Ohioans have short memories, or are just plain dumb
A quick 🧵
When he was using his official position to try to scare Ohioans into voting against Issue 1 last year, Yost released a legal “analysis” to show the dramatic..
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…impact of the new right to reproductive freedom that was on the ballot
Here’s the impact he described then:
The new language would “create a new standard that goes further than Casey’s ‘undue burden’ test or Roe’s
‘strict scrutiny’ test and will make it harder for OH to maintain the kinds of laws already upheld as valid prior to…Dobbs. In other words, the Amendment would give greater protection to abortion to be free from regulation than at any time in OH history.”
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Scholarship: (n)
•“a grant-in-aid to a student” (Merriam Webster)
•“a sum of money or other aid granted to a student, because of merit, need, etc., to pursue their studies.” ()
In the height of Jim Crow Alabama, a Black voter trying to register to vote would face the form below.
Look at question 16 in particular: asking if they’d ever seen the registration form before
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What was that about?
Well, civil rights groups like the NAACP and others were working hard to help voters register across the South—which included onerous forms and literacy/character tests.
So they would prep those voters for what traps and tricks to be prepared for.
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Of course, the Jim Crow state govts who set up all those traps and tricks and tests didn’t like that groups were trying to help voters overcome them.
So question 16 was a way to get voters to reveal who was helping them.
Had they practiced? W what groups? What people? Etc.
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So, I asked AI what we could do about the crisis of corruption via regulation of dark money in Ohio. In no time at all, it provided a number of clear answers:
A 🧵 on how a new grassroots model shows us the way to support candidates running everywhere
We can do this, America!!
We can run everywhere if we all pitch in. Here’s how:
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Two years ago, a small group of us set out to solve a problem—a problem most don’t see as a problem.
But a problem so big that it is eating at the heart of American democracy.
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And the problem is that while explosions in small-dollar contributions have been working wonders supporting federal candidates in certain swing states in recent years, almost no money flows to most statehouse candidates.
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