I would like to see a uniform day of voting that we could all vote on the same day, as is done in Mexico.

As a State, over a period of decades, Ohio legislators undertook a bipartisan effort to help Ohioans vote more easily.

HB 194 dismantles a number of common-sense, effectiveness, and, I underscore, bipartisan measures that assist people with voting.

That is the way the Senate does things, by the way.

It is a solution in search of a problem. It is not something we need to do.

We must never forget that democracy exists not for the benefit of elected officials or election officials, but for the benefit of all of us, we the people of this country.

There is perhaps no right in America more essential to our democracy than the right to vote.

These efforts under the guise of preventing fraud and cutting spending are part of a cynical effort to impede access to the ballot.

These laws may have different provisions in each State, but together they threaten to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters in the next election.

Absentee voting certainly opens up the door to fraud.

Why should we take away that local control?

I do not agree with that. There are plenty of ways, if you are a local election official in that county--

that has to be followed. It is not unconstitutional. It does not violate any laws. That is perfectly to do.

The legislature took away that discretion by HB 194.

there is a continuing shortage of poll workers.

Unfortunately, HB 194 and related changes in our voting system take us in the wrong direction.

This will affect somewhere in the neighborhood of 105,000 people.

This is essentially giving poll workers discretion to discriminate.