Senate Bill 293 is a harmful voting bill that would do away with the four-day grace period for postmarked ballots arriving after election day. The bill also contains a grab bag of unfunded provisions including citizenship verification and data checks that will drastically increase the number of provisional ballots, and place a burden on elections officials.

If the bill is signed into law, mail ballots will have to arrive by 7:30pm on election day or they won’t be counted. That will result in thousands of legally cast ballots being left uncounted because of delays in the US postal service!

Tell Governor DeWine to veto the bill. When he signed another voter suppression bill in 2023, DeWine said Ohio’s elections were already good and didn’t need more changes:"I believe with the enactment of the new election integrity provisions in House Bill 458, this matter should be settled, and I do not expect to see any further statutory changes to Ohio voting procedures while I am Governor."

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Please follow up with a phone call too if you can. The Governor's phones are often full, so here's a list of a few numbers to try:

• Governor's office main line: 614-466-3555
• Governor's hotline: 614-644-4357
• 614-466-2828 for Director of Legislative Affairs, Giles.Allen@governor.ohio.gov
• 614-995-1850 for Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, Lindsey.Brigano@governor.ohio.gov
• 614-995-1800 for Counselor to the Governor, Laurel.Dawson@governor.ohio.gov
• 614-644-0582 for Office Administrator, Eric.Hinten@governor.ohio.gov