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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 corrections, early voting, and reduces the number of drop box locations to just one per county, acco...

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 Disinformation.” In this piece, Bazelon presents—and questions—the American free speech jurispr...