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SHIRLEY SMITH
THE OHIO SENATE
AUGUST 2011
PROTECTING VOTERS & ACCESS TO THE POLLS, CHANGES TO EARLY VOTING UPDATING THE OHIO CONSTITUION: THE OHIO CONSTITUTIONAL MODERNIZATION COMMISSION RE-DRAWING OHIOS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS SENATOR SMITH STANDS UP FOR OHIOANS, OPPOSES PRIVATIZATION SCHEMES
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Previously, anyone wishing to vote early in-person absentee could do so up to five weeks before the election. Now this time frame has been shortened to seventeen days, with no voting on Sundays and only half-days on Saturdays. There will be no in-person absentee voting during the weekend directly prior to the election.
Registered voters may vote early by mail and in person. Voters must file an application for an absentee-voters ballot, which can be secured from the Secretary of States website or your county Board of Elections. This application requires the voters birthdate and one of the following:
An Ohio drivers license number, A valid U.S. Passport, or A copy of a current, valid photo I.D., a mili-
tary I.D., or a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows
New Law: Early Voting by mail begins. New Law: Early Voting in person begins.
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The absentee-voters ballot may be returned that day or mailed to the county Board of Elections before Election Day.
Senator Smith In a speech to also spoke out her colagainst educaSenator Smith talks to her colleagues about the leagues, Senational funding shortcomings of the new state budget. Click here or tor Smith sinin the bill. We on the image above to watch the speech. gled out the are instituting sale of Ohios prisons, the billion on their utility bills policy that punishes disOhio Lottery, the Ohio by doing the job that its advantaged children for Turnpike, and liquor prof- supposed to do, said their hardships and abject its. We are selling off Senator Smith. It has conditions, Senator some of our best assets proven to be a great asset Smith said. And guess under the guise of getting for the state. Yet it is be- what - all of this is justithe best bang for our ing strangled, and robbed fied in the name of rebuck, she said. Senator of money that protects our warding excellence. Smith noted that a grow- people from those who Senator Smith concluded ing body of research dont want oversight. her speech with a request shows that there are no She also called for the re- to her fellow senators: clear advantages to privat- moval of language that Rather than urge you to ized prisons. She also would open up Ohios vote for this budget or said that prison privatiza- parks to oil and gas drill- against it, I would suggest tion seemed contrary to ing. It puzzles me why you vote in a way that you the hard work thats now we would want to have can sleep at night. being done on sentencing drilling in our state parks