Email To My State Rep

To Ohio Representative Michael Duffey, District 21:

I'm a constituent and I'm deeply confused by what you and your fellow Republicans have just done.

Senate Bill 205 mandates that absentee ballot applications now ask for additional  unnecessary information (more chances to make a mistake equals more invalidated ballots), the apps provide no information as to sufficient return postage (more incorrect postage equals more undeliverable ballots), are to be sent only by the Secretary of State (rather than by local election boards), and only if you guys approve funding to do so.

Senate Bill 238 cuts one week from early voting, and eliminates same-day registration and voting.

Upon their passage, your comment was that Ohio still has "better than average" ballot access.  But this makes it worse than it was before, doesn't it, Mike?

One of your colleagues said, "A month of early voting is not voter suppression."  Perhaps not, but neither was five weeks, was it?

Gosh, Mike, what's the purpose of these two bills then?  They're definitely not about fixing voter fraud, because we don't have any!  Secretary of State Husted recently confirmed that, placing the level of fraudulent voting in Ohio's last election at 3/10,000th of a percent.

If there's no problem, why change the rules?  Help me understand.

You guys think you're slick, but you're craven and obvious.  This legislation is an odious batch of partisan jury-rigging.  When your odds of being elected go up as vote totals go down, you know you're not really representing the majority.

I won't forget.  And you should be ashamed.