November Newsletter
Election Day is Today! Know your voting rights; Recording of Ohio Supreme Court Candidate Forum
Poll locations open from 6:30 am to 7:30 pm today for the election. If you are an eligible voter, please vote - make your voice heard!
Here are the topics in this newsletter you do not want to miss:
Can I Vote?
Where Can I Vote?
What/Who Are on the Ballot?
Your rights as a voter - including asking for language assistance
Transportation and Other Assistance
Recording for the Ohio Supreme Court Candidate Forum
Voter Guide
Phone Banking to Turn Out Asian American Voters
Asian American and Pacific Islander Voter Hotline - language support available
Can I Vote?
Check your voter status on the Ohio Secretary of State website here. If you are unable to locate your voter registration information but think you are registered to vote, you may be eligible to cast a provisional ballot if the following apply:
You have not moved outside of your county of prior registration;
You must be at the correct polling place for your current address.
Please remember to bring your phone ID with you (driver’s license, passport, state ID, etc.). See detailed ID requirements here.
Where Can I Vote?
Click here to look up your polling location.
Make sure you are aware of these ID requirements for voting.
Forgot to Mail your Absentee Ballot?
If you were unable to put your absentee ballot in the mail in the past few days, you can still make it count by dropping it off at your county board of elections before the close of the polls at 7:30 p.m. on Election Day.
What/Who Are on the Ballot?
Do your research before heading to the poll, or while you stand in line!
Click the Vote 411 sample ballot tool to see who/what are on your ballot base on your address.
We want to call out one item of importance on the ballot “Issue 1”. Please reference our WeChat article about it here.
Issue 1 - “Proposed Amendment to Replace the Current Politician-Run Redistricting Process”
Your Rights as a Voter
You may not know some of the following rights you are entitled by the law:
Voters whose names do not appear on the poll list in an election, or who are unable to comply with identification requirements, are entitled to vote by provisional ballot if they declare they are registered to vote in the jurisdiction and eligible to vote in the election. [52 U.S.C. 21082(a), 21083(b); R.C. 3505.181]
Voters in an election who vote by provisional ballot are entitled to written information describing how they may learn, through a free access system, whether their provisional ballots were counted by election officials, and if they were not counted, why not. [52 U.S.C. 21082(a); R.C. 3505.181]
Voters who require assistance in voting due to blindness, disability, or inability to read or write, may receive assistance from a person of the voter's choice other than the voter's employer (or agent thereof), an officer of the voter's union (or agent thereof) or a candidate whose name appears on the ballot. [52 U.S.C. 10508; R.C. 3505.24]
如果你不懂英文，你有权指定一个人协助你投票.
See detailed information provided by the Ohio Secretary of State here.
See detailed information provided by Asian Pacific Islander American Vote here.
If you have any questions about voting, call the Asian American and Pacific Islander Voter Hotline 888-API-VOTE - they provide support in eight (8) Asian languages: Bengali, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese中文, Korean, Hindi/Urdu, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
Transportation and Other Assistance
If you need help to get to the poll or need any other assistance to be able to vote, please contact us at aaco@aacohio.org. We are standing by to help today while the polls are open.
Recording for the Ohio Supreme Court Candidate Forum
On Nov 1, Asian American Coalition of Ohio (AACO) and Ohio Chinese American Association (OCAA) hosted an online candidate forum on Zoom for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters to engage with the candidates for the Ohio Supreme Court in the 2024 elections. The hosts invited all six candidates that compete for three seats:
Justice Michael Donnelly (D), Ohio Supreme Court
Judge Megan Shanahan (R), Hamilton County Common Pleas Court
Justice Melody Stewart (D), Ohio Supreme Court
Justice Joe Deters (R), Ohio Supreme Court
Judge Lisa Forbes (D), 8th District Court of Appeals
Judge Dan Hawkins (R), Franklin County Court of Common Pleas
Justice Michael Donnelly, Justice Melody Stewart and Judge Lisa Forbes attended the forum. Judge Dan Hawkins accepted the invitation but was unable to attend due to a family emergency. Justice Joe Deters responded but could not attend due to conflict. Judge Megan Shanahan did not respond to the invitation. The host organizations are nonprofit, non-partisan community grassroots organizations that do not endorse or oppose any political candidate or party.
You can view the recording of the event on YouTube.
Read our WeChat article about the Ohio Supreme Court Candidate Forum here.
Voter Guide
Phone Banking to Turn Out Asian American Voters
The phone banking is underway that is organized by AACO in partnership with APIAVote. Our volunteers have been calling Asian Americans and Pacific Islander voters in Ohio and encouraging them to vote. There are 200,000 eligible AAPI voters in Ohio. If every one of these voters shows up to vote, it'll make a huge difference! Can you spare a couple of hours to join our non-partisan phone banking in our final push to turn out Ohio AAPI voters?
Asian American and Pacific Islander Voter Hotline
If you have questions about voting, and/or if you face questions at your poll location that you do not know how to answer, call the Asian American and Pacific Islander Voter Hotline 888-API-VOTE, which provides support in eight (8) Asian languages: Bengali, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese中文, Korean, Hindi/Urdu, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
Helpful Resources
Ohio Secretary of State website: www.ohiosos.gov or VoteOhio.gov.
Asian Pacific Islander American Vote website for Ohio: APIAVote.org/oh.
Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 5 (polls open 6:30 am - 7:30 pm). Look up your poll location here.
Did you mail your absentee ballot? Track it here.
Call the Asian American Voter Hotline at 1-888-API-Vote to ask questions in your preferred ethnic language.
Frequent voter questions compiled by Ohio Voter Rights Coalition
You can also email aaco@aacohio.org to receive if you have any questions. Don’t forget to check out other events on the AACO website. Hope to see you at the event.
Best,
Ohio Asian American Association (OCAA)
Asian American Coalition of Ohio (AACO)
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