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LaRose issued a directive Friday that requires someone delivering an absentee ballot for another person to sign an attestation that they are complying with state law — which means they must go into the board of elections to sign the form.

“As a practical matter, this means that only a voter’s personal ballot may be returned via drop box,” LaRose ordered.

The secretary also sent a letter to legislative leaders asking them to either drastically cut down who can submit an absentee ballot to a drop box or eliminate the use of drop boxes entirely.

Is there a strict abidance to the two main parties, or are third party/independent candidates just never elected?

So I’m pretty sure this is illegal and bias. There is a judge in a small town who is the only felony judge. She acts like she hates drug dealers but snorts coke between proceedings. Been caught buying a half oz of crack. And now she owns part of a drug rehab called STAR. Now this program is set up for failure. Only 15% a residents graduate, and the ones who somehow dont make it are sent to prison. So what im asking is… is it legal for the ONLY felony judge in town to own a rehab, who she can send addicts to, knowing that the program is goin to fail the addict? She will choose to send everyone she can to rehab, knowing the failure rate.

The Alabama Supreme Court just said that embryos used for IVF are unborn children, even if outside of a uterus. This has caused fertility clinics in Alabama to stop IVF procedures. The process of IVF is stressful, physically exhausting, and financially straining. This ruling makes all of this even worse by forcing patients to seek less effective methods of infertility treatments or travel to IVF-friendly states.

This has ties to the personhood bills, like the one Rep. Gary Click introduced in Ohio in 2022. HB 704 would give all constitutional rights to an embryo at the moment of conception. This bill would have done the same thing to the IVF clinics in Ohio.

Imposing religious beliefs into the legislature is Gary Click’s calling card. Similarly, parts of the Alabama ruling reads more like a theology course than a legal document, quoting The Bible numerous times.

Rep. Click has shown his willingness to ban abortion, IVF, and transgender care for everyone(not just children). He is using his theology as his guidance for the bills he sponsors and supports. He speaks about the parents’ bill of rights and then removes parents’ rights. He speaks about medical freedom and then removes medical freedoms.

Here is what Gary Click thought about personal medical choices during COVID.

What we do on this issue is pivotal and critical. If we surrender privacy and medical autonomy on this issue, we can certainly expect greater invasions of privacy and loss of bodily autonomy in the future. If we stop it here, we draw a line in the sand securing those inalienable rights endowed to us by our Creator. The line we draw today will affect the lives our children will live tomorrow – we can’t afford to fail. https://ohiohouse.gov/members/gary-click/news/guest-column-click-unleashes-bill-to-protect-private-medical-information-107274

The mental gymnastics Gary Click does to think that personal medical freedoms apply in one context, but not another, makes your head want to explode. All in the name of an ideology he follows. He has stated that any family structure that is not defined by the Bible is a tool of Satan being used to undermine society. Single parents, divorced parents, same-sex couples, IVF, (gasp) transgender families. He will use his arguments to further his cause and then turn around and throw the next group under the bus. It’s sickening and everyone deserves better.

Who wants to bet Rep. Click reintroduces the personhood bill this year?

https://ohiopoliticsisfun.com/2024/02/22/20-says-gary-click-will-reintroduce-the-personhood-bill/

I think it is important to consider what issues all of the Republican candidates are running on which is quite clear from their T.V. ads. It is all about "FEAR". Since Trump entered the political arena in 2015, the Republican Party no longer tries to inspire Americans with positive messages. Much like the leader of the party the messages are all about creating and/or tapping into the fears of the base. The authoritarian dictator's playbook for all the Republican candidates is their desire to appear "strong" by pointing to what they believe their voters should fear the most and then telling them how they will fix it with their strength. Case in point: Drug Cartels and Immigration. They will use violence, death and destruction to stop them and save you! That proves how strong they are. At the same time though, many in Congress have said the quiet part out loud. They continue to blame Democrats for the immigration problem, but they do not want to fix it until after the election. Many of the Republican's have said that! Not unlike abortion, they want to use the issue to help them get elected, but they really do not want to fix it.

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Fascism is on the rise in Ohio! Ohio is the first state in our country to work toward and make significant progress in the destruction of democracy. In addition to working to prevent people from voting, violating a State Supreme Court Ruling, and attempting to change rules that empower the people, they are now planning to negate the vote and the will of the people! They are demanding "absolute power"!

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-overthrow-judicial-powers-77a68c1e6ee6fc79462f6aaf4ea1a323

Are you tired of being shut out by the Ohio General Assembly? Are you fed up with the "spoiler effect?" Don't you think it's time that the >70% of Ohio voters who aren't registered with a party get a say?

We're Rank The Vote Ohio (r/RankTheVoteOhio), the state's official nonpartisan registered 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to implementing ranked-choice voting in Ohio! We're in the process of initiating a ballot measure (breakdown of process on OH SOS website), with our goal to have it on the ballot by the 2024 general election. You can sign the pre-petition here.

Even as a former Republican, now independent who leans Democrat, I've been a fan of RCV since 2012, although I thought it was a pipe dream. Fast forward to 2023, and both Maine and Alaska as well as over a dozen cities in the U.S. have adopted it. Nevada is on its way, and Ohio could be next after that!

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