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But the real problems for Democrats came in the urban counties. Voter turnout was down in Cleveland's Cuyahoga County 5.3 percentage points compared to 2020, down 4.7 in Columbus' Franklin County ...
Information from the John Locke Foundation found that, for the 2020 election, over 753,000 Black voters took part in early voting. So far in 2024, and with just days to go before early voting ends ...
One factor impacting voter turnout of Black Americans is that, as of the 2000 election, 13% of Black American males are reportedly ineligible to vote nationwide because of a prior felony conviction; in certain states – Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi – disenfranchisement rates for Black American males in the 2000 election were around 30% ...
In 1976, Prentiss was one of the only Black women integrally involved in Ohio’s Cuyahoga Women’s Political Caucus, which at the time was primarily composed of white women. Next, Prentiss became a delegate to the Democratic Convention for Jesse Jackson in 1984, [4] and then became co-chair of the Cleveland Rainbow Coalition. [5]
Of the over 20,000 elected county and local officials less than 8% are Black women with Stephanie Summerow Dumas elected in 2018 as the first Black woman county commissioner in the history of Ohio. April 3, 1973, Lelia Foley became the first Black woman elected mayor in the United States.
Ohio saw nearly 854,900 people vote early. That's an increase from the August special election.
The report found that the growing racial turnout gap is in part due to the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which suspended Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
This included a flood of donations, many coming from outside Ohio, through several abortion-focused PACs: around thirteen million dollars was poured in to two explicitly anti-abortion groups: Protect Women Ohio and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. The amount for explicitly pro-abortion groups was much smaller, with Ohio Physicians for ...