Just two weeks after sponsor testimony, Senate Bill 293 to eliminate Ohio’s four-day grace period for mailed-in ballots (apart from military and overseas ballots), was voted onto the Senate floor on Nov. 5 and passed the same day . It’s now pending in the House. No election board officials, busy with the Nov. 4 election, testified on a bill critics argue would leave the votes of thousands of Ohioans at the mercy of a U.S. Postal Service afflicted with delivery delays.

Proponents call SB 293 an anti-fraud bill in line with President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order that absentee ballots arriving after Election Day violate federal law requiring a “single” Election Day — a position not yet validated by the U.S. Supreme Court, although the high court has taken up for review a 5

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