Ohio uses smoke and mirrors on voters
The residents of Ohio are getting screwed. They have not been informed that voting day has been moved up from June 2 to April 28. No notice from the county to anyone and nothing in the media.
The primary election in Ohio was set for March 10, 2020. Then someone in Columbus, without explanation, changed the date to March 17, St. Patrick's Day. The cynical among us believe that the hope was that fewer voters would turn out that day, with the Cleveland parade and all, which of course was canceled for the first time in 178 years.
Except that lifelong politician and governor Mike DeWine canceled elections at 3:30 A.M. on the 17th itself. He had gone to court earlier that day to try to stop the primary. DeWine said he would go along with the judge's decision. The judge said "no," and all of a sudden, the judge's decision was unimportant.
It took DeWine's cronies until 3:30 A.M. to get four Ohio Supreme Court judges to agree by phone to call off voting. (Was that even legal?) DeWine set the new date as June 2. Then on March 25, the General Assembly passed H.B. 197, resetting the date to April 28, 2020.
If you have not voted early, residents are no longer allowed to go to the Geauga Board of Elections (BOE), where I live, but instead have to follow a complicated procedure, which I learned about by accident. The county has not informed the voters; the media have never mentioned it.
You can vote only by mail now. But before you can vote, you first have to get an application (mailed or faxed to you) to apply for a ballot. You then fill out that application, and it must be mailed to the BOE. Then they will mail you a ballot. After you fill out your ballot, it then must be mailed back to the BOE. And all this has to be done in less than a month. What could possibly go wrong?
And where are all the votes that were already cast being securely kept?