“Just a bunch of confusion,” said UD student Jada Brown, who was planning to volunteer at Montgomery County Board of Elections Tuesday morning. “The polls were ordered closed, then it got rejected. A lot of people were saying it would be open so I thought I would show up to see. They weren’t.”
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On Monday, Gov. Mike DeWine recommended postponing the Ohio Primary until June 2, but a judge denied doing so, which meant the primary was back on. Late Monday, State Health Director Dr. Amy Acton issued an order closing polling places as a health emergency “to avoid imminent threat with the high probability of widespread exposure to COVID-19 ...”
Brown said she would have appreciated a text, e-mail or phone call letting her know she didn’t need to volunteer today.
“I understand it,” she said. “This has literally never happened before. So it’s understandable that proper communication wasn’t done.”
DeWine and Secretary of State Frank LaRose are working with the courts to extend voting options.
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