Blogger Comment: Although I am advocate of none control systems placed by governments on the people and preventing true freedom in the true sense of the word, I am also an advocate for the ‘people’s’ democracy more and where this article shows to me that there are strange people within the GOP that undermine the legal basis of the democratic vote and based upon pure bullshit…one would have that this would be done by a Democrat politician, but where this article shows even though there it has now been shown and proven by officials that there were tens of millions that were allowed to vote fraudulently (overridingly most were Democrat votes) where frauds and where a few million people were dead and never knocked off the official voting lists by the Democrats…this Republic governor if I can call him this for his dubious reasons and actions was totally wrong to vote against pure commonsense and what is right with all the fraud and corruption that the Democrats manifested, allowed and constructed for entry and to keep themselves in power…this guy is not a GOP governor he is a Democrime governor in complete disguise in reality…really…no greater crime against the American people at their very roots…
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Ohio’s Republican Governor Mike DeWine has vetoed a GOP-backed election security bill that would have required absentee voters to submit a copy of their photo identification with their mail-in ballots.
DeWine’s office announced Wednesday night that the Republican governor signed several bills into law but rejected House Bill 472, a measure sponsored by state Rep. Jodi Salvo (R-Bolivar).
The bill would have required Ohioans voting absentee to include a copy of their photo ID with their ballots beginning in 2027.
Supporters framed the measure as an added safeguard for mail-in voting, an issue that has remained central to Republican election integrity efforts since the 2020 election.
DeWine, however, said the requirement would add a burden for voters without providing a meaningful improvement to election security.
DeWine Says Bill Would Deter Some Voters
In his veto message, DeWine argued that Ohio already has one of the strongest election systems in the country.
The governor said the new absentee ballot requirement risked discouraging some voters from participating.
“While on paper one can make the case that there is a pathway for absentee voters to overcome the hurdles to voting that this bill creates, if the net result is that a number of voters will be deterred from making the attempt to vote, that result is hurtful, not helpful — to our efforts to include all of our citizens in the most basic act that involves them in our democratic process,” DeWine wrote.
DeWine said he supported one provision in the bill that would have allowed online absentee ballot applications.
“The provision in H.B. 472 that allows for online absentee ballot applications is much needed, and I commend the Legislature for passing it,” DeWine added.
“It is unfortunate that it is in a bill that I must veto.”
The veto is likely to anger election-integrity conservatives who have pushed for tougher rules on absentee voting, voter ID, and ballot security.
DeWine also vetoed House Bill 173, a measure sponsored by state Rep. David Thomas (R-Jefferson) dealing with submetered utility services.
The governor said the bill would have weakened protections for some utility customers.
“The Supreme Court of Ohio has recently held that submetering companies, which buy and resell electricity at a profit, are public utilities regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio,” DeWine said.
“Substitute House Bill 173 would exempt submetering companies from the definition of a public utility, although the Public Utilities Commission would still retain oversight authority.”
“However, while this bill does contain some consumer protections, they are not as robust as those afforded to customers of Ohio’s electric utilities,” he added.
Alongside the vetoes, DeWine signed several other bills.
Senate Bill 19, sponsored by state Sen. Andrew O. Brenner (R-Delaware), addresses academic intervention services, diagnostic assessments, state achievement assessments, career-technical education for home-educated students, youth organization presentations, and community school quality designations.
Senate Bill 52, sponsored by state Sen. Tim Schaffer (R-Lancaster), designates multiple memorial highways, including the “Congressman David Hobson Memorial Highway,” and creates several specialty license plates.
Senate Bill 106, sponsored by state Sen. Bill Reineke (R-Tiffin), deals with electric vehicle charging stations and makes corrections to provisions of Senate Bill 103 from the 136th General Assembly.
Senate Bill 179, sponsored by state Sen. Terry Johnson (R-McDermott), requires incarcerating institutions to verify the veteran status of inmates.
Senate Bill 219, sponsored by state Sen. Al Landis (R-Dover), changes Ohio law governing oil and gas wells.
Governor Issues Line-Item Veto on Spending Bill
DeWine also signed House Bill 170, sponsored by state Reps. Monica Robb Blasdel (R-New Waterford) and Bob Peterson (R-Sabina), which creates a framework to regulate carbon capture and storage technologies and the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide.
House Bill 268, sponsored by state Reps. Latyna M. Humphrey (D-Columbus) and Gary Click (R-Vickery), changes to when a person may file a petition for a certificate of qualification for employment.
DeWine also signed House Bill 479, sponsored by state Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland), but issued a line-item veto.
The bill makes appropriations and sets conditions for the operation of state programs.
DeWine said his line-item veto was intended to preserve funding for outdoor recreation development in Appalachia.
“This item would terminate previously appropriated funding to the Outdoor Recreation Council of Appalachia,” DeWine wrote.
“This funding termination would disrupt economic development related to the Baileys Trail System that is already in progress.”
“In my time as Governor, I have worked to foster the economic development of Ohio’s outdoor recreation sector, and this item would unnecessarily harm this development in the Appalachian region of Ohio,” he added.
“Therefore, the veto of this item is in the public interest.”
The headline decision remains DeWine’s rejection of the absentee voter ID bill.
For the governor, the measure imposed too much risk to voter participation for too little added security.
For election-integrity conservatives, the veto blocks a common-sense safeguard at a time when confidence in mail-in voting remains a major political issue.
Follow the link for the source… https://slaynews.com/republicans-outraged-ohio-gop-governor-vetoes-bill-requiring-voter-id/
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