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Collecting signatures to end gerrymandering

(03/02/24 11:00am)

Good government groups are active in Ohio again, and you might see some of them holding a  Citizens Not Politicians petition. The Citizens Not Politicians initiative is collecting signatures to bring reform to Ohio’s redistricting process. If passed by Ohio voters in November, this change to the Ohio constitution will remove politicians from the process of creating legislative maps and shift that responsibility to citizens through the creation of an independent redistricting commission.


Changes to Ohio’s voter ID laws impact students

(09/30/23 2:00pm)

In January, the state of Ohio adopted more stringent voter identification laws, and the League of Women Voters of Oxford is worried about the impact these changes will have on the ability of Miami University students to vote in the Nov. 7 election. Within Butler County, only nine provisional ballots were rejected due to the lack of a valid ID in November 2022, but after changes to the voter ID laws went into effect, 124 were rejected in the August special election.