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More Ohio action on abortion laws likely to wait until fall

$Wilma Blackmon votes Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at the Montgomery County Board of Elections. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

August election: Officials plan for primaries that add costs, need for workers

Gov. Mike DeWine has signed House Bill 99, allowing teachers and other school personnel to carry guns in the classroom, he announced Monday. CONTRIBUTED

DeWine signs armed teachers bill; Democrats denounce it

Members of Fair Districts Ohio and other progressive and voting-rights groups chant angrily at members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission following the commission's May 5, 2022, readoption of state House and Senate district maps already rejected as unconstitutional. Members of the media cluster around commission members on the dais.

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New Ohio state House, Senate districts won’t last long: What comes next?

Ohio chief justice wants to reform bail system

Bail change will be on fall ballot

Yellow Springs voters were casting ballots on charter amendment issues this spring. One would allow residents who are 16 years of age and older to vote on local Yellow Springs issues and elected officials. Another would allow residents who are non-citizens to vote for Yellow Springs local issues and elected officials pursuant to the home rule power and granted by the charter. FILE

Yellow Springs action sparks push to ban non-citizens from local voting

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Supreme Court won’t hold state redistricting officials in contempt but tells them to draw...

Gov. DeWine, Mayor Whaley talk to media following lunch

Governor’s race puts focus on Dayton region

Tim Ryan and J.D. Vance won their political party primaries in Ohio election for U.S. Senate on May 3, 2022. Ryan is a Democrat and Vance is a Republican.

U.S. Senate primary shows Trump’s influence ‘alive and well in Ohio’

Gov. Mike DeWine announces his Strong Ohio gun bill plan Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Columbus. Lt. Gov. Jon Husted and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley are to his right. Photo by Laura Bischoff

DeWine, Whaley matchup will be one for history books

Vance and Ryan win primary for U.S. Senate seat that could change balance of power

$Voters wait in line to vote Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at the Dayton Korean Grace Church. MARSHALL GORBY \ STAFF$

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Only 1 in 5 voters cast ballots in Ohio, locally

Mayor Mary McDonald and members of Trotwood city council discuss an income tax levy for the May ballot on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. AIMEE HANCOCK / STAFF

Trotwood may try income tax levy again after narrow rejection

The city of Beavercreek had planned to hire public service workers and launch infrastructure projects if residents had approved the 1% income tax. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Beavercreek plans to make cuts after income tax fails

U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep Tim Ryan, D-Howland Twp., speaks in Dayton during retail worker roundtable

U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan says he fights for working class, wants to make U.S...

Beavercreek City Hall located at 1368 Research Park Drive. CONTRIBUTED

Beavercreek income tax levy rejected; city to step back, review

Trotwood tax levy narrowly fails; Centerville, others pass

Warren County Republican Primary candidates Amy Brewer and Tom Grossmann

Grossmann edges Brewer in tight Warren County commission race

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Howland Twp., left, and Republican businessman J.D. Vance won their party primaries for the U.S. Senate race.

Vance, Ryan win their U.S. Senate primary races in Ohio

Jordan Wortham (left) and Rennes Bowers (right) are running in the May primary to compete for a Montgomery County Commission seat in November.

Wortham wins GOP Montgomery County commission race

Gov. Mike DeWine, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley talk to the media in this file photo.

Ohio’s race for governor pits 2 local leaders after DeWine, Whaley win

$Cory Zimmerman, election services specialist at the Montgomery County Board of Elections, looks over machines as employees prepared for today's election. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Polls closed: 10 key Election Day races on local ballots

The Miami County Board of Elections office in a previous election cycle.

Miami County elections board scrambles after power outage

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Jeff Rezabek, director of the Montgomery County Board of Elections, talk about the May 3 primary

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Ohio Secretary of State LaRose: Voters can have faith in Ohio’s elections

Janice James, right, cast her early ballot at the Montgomery County Board of Elections on West Third St. Thursday April 28, 2022. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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Primary Election 2022: Low voter turnout predicted

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel campaigns with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX in Kettering on April 29, 2022

Mandel advocates an end to early voting in campaign visit with Sen. Ted Cruz

$Sarah Greathouse, Montgomery County Board of Elections Deputy Director and Jeff Rezabek Montgomery County Board of Elections Director, answers questions from the media during an open house Wednesday, March 23, 2022. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Clearing up confusion about the May 3 ballot: Who’s on it and who’s not

$Inger Marsh looks over one of the polling machines at the Montgomery County Board of Elections Wednesday March 24, 2022. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Voting early or Tuesday for Ohio’s primary election? Here’s what to know.

FILE — The U.S. Capitol at sunrise, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2022. Democratic candidates in 2022 have focused on bread-and-butter economic issues while ceding the political turf on the structure of American democracy and voting rights to Republicans, who are powered by a former president and many base voters who believe the 2020 contest was illegitimate. (Al Drago/The New York Times)

Two Democrats seek to unseat Jordan in 4th Congressional district

The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

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Four Democrats running for chance to unseat Turner in Congressional race

2 Republicans running in primary for Montgomery County commissioner

John Cranley, former mayor of Cincinnati, and Nan Whaley, former mayor of Dayton, participate in the Ohio Gubernatorial Democratic Primary Debate at the Paul Robeson Cultural & Performing Arts Center at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Meg Vogel/Ohio Debate Commission

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Whaley, Cranley take different roads to governor’s race

Employees at Norwood Medical in Dayton kept rows of CNC (computer numeric controlled) machines busy on a recent afternoon. THOMAS GNAU/STAFF

Growing Ohio’s economy: What Ohio’s governor candidates are pledging

Lauren Poellnitz, a process engineer at Silfex, works inside the company's facility in Springfield that is on Titus Road. That location now boast a workforce of over 500 people, surpassing original growth expectations. Mark Schmitter, Contributed.

Job creation: What would Ohio governor candidates do?

Signs in the county administration building garage downtown show Montgomery County voters where to pull in for curbside voting.

County will send election reminder to every voter

Valley View Local Schools: Currently in use as the Valley View Junior High, this building, located in Farmersville, Ohio, was constructed in 1923 as the home of the Farmersville Wildcats.

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Valley View residents to decide on JEDD tax tied to new school

Companies owned by 5 U.S. Senate candidates in Ohio received COVID relief funds

Ohio may ban abortions once Down syndrome diagnosis made

Abortion: Where do Ohio’s governor candidates stand?

UPDATE: Greene County mailing corrected ballots to some voters

FILE - A man votes during early voting March 13, 2020, in Cleveland. Despite the uncertainty raised over the date of Ohio’s primary, the state is ready to move forward with early voting on Tuesday ahead of a likely May 3 contest for statewide and congressional races – but not legislative ones. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

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Franklin, Xenia will vote on charter amendments in May

$Guns for sale MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Guns: Where do candidates for Ohio governor stand?

Jacqueline Gaines, left, and Angelina Jackson, right, are running for the Democratic nomination for Common Pleas Judge.

2 Democrats vying for nomination in May primary for judge seat

Trotwood voters will decide on a five-year, 0.5% income tax increase for road improvements during the upcoming May primary election.

Trotwood voters to decide on income tax increase in May election

Two elderly seasonal poll workers with the Greene County Board of Elections test rows of voting machines in preparation for early voting.

Greene County upgrading early voting for 2022 election cycle

$Inger Marsh looks over one of the polling machines at the Montgomery County Board of Elections on Wednesday March 24, 2022. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Today is final day to register to vote in May 3 primary

The City of Beavercreek, in partnership with the Beavercreek Police Department, will host an open house in conjunction with National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 3.

Beavercreek residents to vote on income tax for the third time in 10 years

Clark County Board of Elections' employees, including seasonal workers, perform logic and accuracy tests on voting equipment Friday morning as early voting in Ohio is slated to start on Tuesday. Hasan Karim/Staff

Want to vote in the May 3 primary? Here’s everything you need to know

Demonstrators call on the Ohio Redistricting Commission to follow the guidance of the mapmakers they hired Monday night. JORDAN LAIRD / STAFF

Redistricting in Ohio was supposed to be nonpartisan. How did it get so messed up?

The Ohio Secretary of State has directed the 88 county boards of elections on the precautions needed to take to prevent the spread of flu and viruses, including the coronavirus. Voting equipment will be regularly wiped with disinfecting cloths and hand sanitizer bottles will be available during in-office early voting and Election Day voting. Voters can also request absentee ballots to be mailed to their home. NICK GRAHAM/FILE

Look for absentee ballot request forms for upcoming election in Sunday’s Dayton Daily...

Mon., Mar. 28, 2022; Wilberforce, Ohio, USA; From left, Debatę moderator Curtis Jackson of Spectrum News, and Ohio U.S. Senate Democratic candidates Traci "TJ" Johnson, Morgan Harper and Rep. Tim Ryan begin during the U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Debate. Mandatory Credit: Joshua A. Bickel/Ohio Debate Commission

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Democrats running for U.S. Senate debate about corporate contributions, filibuster and...

$U.S. Senate candidate Matt Dolan, right, held a local law enforcement roundtable at The Golf Club at Yankee Trace, Friday March 25, 2022. Dolan is a Republican state senator from Chagrin Falls. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

U.S. Senate candidate Dolan is ‘problem solver,’ says former AG Betty Montgomery

Camille Hall, from the Clark County Board of Elections, sets up accessible voting equipment for disabled voters for testing next week at the Board of Elections Friday, March 25, 2022. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

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Voting for May 3 primary starts April 5; Get absentee ballot requests in now

Long lines greeted voters at the Montgomery County Board of Elections on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, as early voting began for the November general election. Early in-person voting in the state lasts until Nov. 2 and absentee ballots can be dropped off at the board office until Election Day, which is Nov. 3. In Montgomery County, registered voters can cast their ballot at the board of elections located at 451 W. Third St. in Dayton. MARSHALL GORBY/STAFF

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Statehouse candidates off May 3 ballot: Here’s what that means

60K Montgomery County voters to have new polling location for May election

May 3 primary still on. Here’s how to make sure you’re registered

House Speaker Bob Cupp, R-Lima, talks about what discussions will remain private as the public map-drawing process goes on.

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Fourth try: Mediators to help Ohio Redistricting Commission as it again draws new maps