Thread by @OHSenDemCaucus

Today, statehouse #Ohio #Republicans formally introduced their regressive, anti-voter legislation that goes even further than the voter suppression measures in Georgia and Florida.
dispatch.com/story/news/pol…

Despite numerous concerns from Ohio voting rights activists, Republicans in Columbus are moving ahead with measures that attack Ohioans’ right to vote and confuse voters at the polls.
whio.com/news/local/vot…

The backward Republican legislation would make it harder for Ohioans to vote by:

1)Eliminating a day of early voting on the Monday before Election Day,

2)Cutting off Ohioans’ ability to request an absentee ballot 10 days out from an election, removing a week that Ohioans were previously able to request an absentee ballot,

3)Requiring two forms of ID for online absentee ballot requests,

4) Prohibiting anyone but the Secretary of State from providing prepaid postage for absentee ballot request returns and providing no funding for the Secretary to be able to do so,

5)Codifying Frank LaRose’s nonsensical limit of one dropbox location per county that can only be used in cases of emergency, but making a confusing exception to the rule 10 days out from an election, and

6)Forcing Ohioans to opt-in to ‘automated’ voter registration through the BMV, meaning voter registration isn’t automated at all.