Ohio cut their early vote hours from a ridiculous 35 days to a slightly less but still ridiculous 28 days, and it's "voter suppression"
The real issue around that was voters being able to register and vote the same day for a brief window, and that was exactly why it was taken away.
As for this article, things should be more uniform county by county, but requiring proper birth dates, social security numbers, correct addresses on ABSENTEE ballots are the only way to tell that they are proper votes.
Not really. Maybe Ohio does it in a way that relies on that, but there are plenty of ways to generate ballots for people, mail it to them, and not require them to fill out various fields of data, accurate to-the-t. This touches on one issue I have with elections in America - states have all these arbitrarily guidelines/deadlines/etc, and/or cling to outdated methods, which to some politicians are then used as excuses as to why restrictions are needed.
These screams of voter fraud and voter suppression just need to stop
Not really. I think you're just being more dismissive of the issue. It's fine; you have your views on it and others will have theirs. I admit at times I probably make too much of some voting issues, but not most.
The Republican Party's views on running elections skew far too much in favor of restricting access in the name of [whatever]. There is no creativity in the party for
securely expanding access or improving the way things are done, and a big part of the reason is partisanship. However, I have not been driven so mad by this issue to think it's
all about that. The GOP also seems to cling to a view that voting shouldn't be easy so as to restrict the electorate to people who are genuinely interested and informed.
I vehemently disagree with their logic on that, but whatever floats their boat.