This ruling from Ohio's highest court is 'an affront' to disabled voters [View all]

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Source: MSNBC

It makes no sense to prevent people who may help disabled people complete their ballots from using drop boxed to submit those ballots.

The Ohio Supreme Court, splitting 4-3 along partisan lines, sided Tuesday with the state’s Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose, who issued a rule in August that said voting drop boxes can be used only by people who deliver their own ballots. Voting rights advocates say LaRose’s rule violates a provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which says that any voter who “requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability or inability to read or write may be given assistance by a person of the voter’s choice.”

Many disabled voters are immunocompromised and cannot leave their home. Others have difficulty writing their own ballots because they lack limbs or because they are blind. It makes no sense to prevent people who may help them complete their ballots from using drop boxed to submit those ballots.


Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ohio-supreme-court-drop-box-disabled-voters-rcna175701