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The Douglas County Clerk’s Election Office received a Clearinghouse Award for excellence in election administration.

Ohio GOP lawmakers introduce voter suppression bill Ohio’s new voting bill, HB 294, would place restrictions on mail-in ballots, early voting, and drop boxes.  Loading the player... Ohio has introduced a new voter suppression bill championed by Republican elected officials, joining Georgia and Florida which have signed similar legislation into law this spring. The bill, Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) and Sharon Ray (R-Wadsworth), and replete with restrictions on mail-in ballot “curing” or ...

Is Canadian Law Better Equipped to Handle Disinformation? The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. (Joanne Clifford, https://tinyurl.com/y2xaoraf; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) On Oct. 13, before President Trump—with only falsehoods as ammunition—began live-tweeting his attempt to overturn an election he lost, Emily Bazelon published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled, “Free Speech Will Save Our Democracy: The First Amendment in the Age of D...