(VitalNews.org) – Groups have been continuing to push voters to participate and vote in this year’s election. The League of Women Voters of Ohio has been registering student voters and getting them excited about democracy as they visit the Ohio State University campus.
A volunteer spoke out reminding them of when the deadline to register to vote is by saying “What if you wake up on October eighth and change your mind? It’ll be too late.”
The League is touring about twenty colleges and universities, and with that they have received more than five thousand voter contacts and an indirect outreach to thousands more. Another voter advocacy group called the Organizing for Ohio Coordinated Campaign has said that they’ve reached out to more than one million voters and is seeing “unprecedented momentum.”
These efforts are coming as the Republican Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, has scrutinized Ohio’s election process. LaRose launched a new Office of Election Integrity two years ago and this year has removed over one hundred and fifty thousand inactive or out-of-date voter registrations from the state’s voter rolls.
He has said that this is his effort to crack down on addressing a “crisis of confidence” among voters after the last presidential election which Donald Trump claims was unfairly won by Biden. The Democratic Party has said that this is intended to make “voting as difficult as possible for Ohioans.”
Jen Miller, executive director of the League, has said that the group has been answering questions, giving out neutral voting information, distributing absentee ballots, and registering new students to vote.
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