COLUMBUS, Ohio — If you vote by absentee ballot, you might need to get your ballot in the mail earlier in future elections. The Ohio Senate passed a bill Wednesday afternoon to eliminate the four-day grace period for mail-in ballots to be received by county board of elections offices. The vote was 23-10 mostly along party lines.

Senate Bill 293 would require absentee ballots to arrive by Election Day, eliminating the current window that allowed nearly 9,500 late-arriving votes to count in 2024.

H ARTFORD - Former Stamford Town Clerk Donna Loglisci has paid an $8,000 fine for participating in an absentee ballot fraud scheme with the former city chairman of the Democratic Party in 2015, state election regulators said.

At a public hearing of the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections Tuesday, legislators engaged in an occasionally tense debate over proposed changes to the state election system. In attendance at the hearing were some of Wisconsin’s most prominent election deniers,

Question 1, pushed by Republicans and conservative activists, was rejected by 60% of voters as of 10 p.m., when half of all votes had been counted.

City clerk Rana Faraj says about 150 absentee ballots were rejected, either because they had no signature, a bad signature or some type of issue that those voters need to come to city hall to correct.

Question 1 failed by large margins in southern and coastal areas but also struggled in some rural parts of western and central Maine.

Proponents say the proposals would safeguard elections, but opponents believe they are intended to make voting more difficult.

One Republican lawmaker said including absentee voting restrictions 'gave the opponents the playbook to beat it.'