New Ohio voter ID law may disadvantage college students
Ohio drivers licenses, state IDs, passports and certain military IDs will be acceptable for voting at the polls — but college IDs will not.
If an out-of-state student chooses to vote at an Ohio polling site, instead of in their home state, they: The fear is that obtaining the ID card could disrupt an out-of-state student's financial aid, which is based in part on residency status at home,Anna Wagner, an assistant director for Student Leadership Development, told the campus newspaper that she advises the university's approximately 16,000 out-of-state students to vote in the spring election by mail.
Voters can verify their absentee mail ballots by providing the last four digits of their social security number — no state ID required.County-issued veterans cards are not eligible as voter IDs, Franklin County Recorder Danny O'Connor The bill also rolls back the deadline for boards of elections to receive mail-in ballots to four days after an election rather than 10.that overseas service members won't have enough time to return their absentee ballots.
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