Voting Rights

Election Day is here. Polls open in Ohio at 6:30 a.m. on November 3, and close at 7:30 p.m. The U.S. presidential race, all 16 Ohio congressional seats…

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

The lines were long at the Franklin County Board of Elections on Friday, just ahead of the final weekend of early voting. And some voting rights advocates…

Political tensions are high as Ohioans prepare to go to the polls Tuesday. The state is taking some actions to ensure those tensions don’t translate into…

There are only a few days left before Election Day, and while millions of Ohioans have already cast their ballots early in-person or by mail, that process…

Updated: 1:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 In Ohio, local elections officials process absentee ballots as soon as they get them. That offers not only a sense of how many people are voting in person or by mail, but how many ballots have been flagged for errors. ideastream’s Morning Edition host Amy Eddings talked with Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Spokesman Mike West about the process of "curing" irregular ballots.

It was the second time the high court refused a GOP effort to block a three-day extension for receiving absentee ballots in Pennsylvania. Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in either case.

President Trump has taken to Twitter with a misleading claim that people who previously voted for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden can change…

A Pennsylvania county asked the new justice to disqualify herself because her nomination and confirmation is "unprecedented" and linked, by Trump, to his own reelection. It later reversed itself.

Updated: 5:45 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020 Two out-of-state far-right activists have been charged with intimidating voters in Cuyahoga County. According to the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office, the scheme was allegedly hatched by Jacob Wohl, 22, and Jack Burkman, 54, to deter people from voting by mail. The pair is accused of sending more than 8,100 robocalls on Aug. 26 to phone numbers in Cleveland and East Cleveland.