#new The Republican Governor of Ohio just vetoed a bill requiring photo ID for voting by mail
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Mike DeWine- who is a supporter of Biden-era Haitian migrants staying and working in Ohio – vetoed Substitute House Bill 472.
Which means he rejected a Republican-led effort that would require voters to submit a copy of their photo id when requesting or casting an absentee ballot starting with the November 2027 election.
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DeWine issued the veto after the Ohio General Assembly sent him the bill in the final days before summer recess.
The measure had passed the House around June 10 and cleared the Senate 23-10, with one Republican, Sen. Bill Blessing of Colerain Township, joining all Democrats in voting against it
Under current Ohio law, a voter requesting an absentee ballot must give basic personal information, a signature, and either the last four digits of their Social Security number or a full driver’s license number. No photograph is required.
The bill would have given people requesting an absentee ballot three options:
Upload a photo of their ID to a secure online portal run the the Secretary of State’s office
Mail a photocopy of their photo ID to their county board of elections or
Complete an exemption form.
The bill also included an online absentee application option that DeWine called “much needed” but said did not justify requiring photo ID
DeWine saying,
“House Bill 472 would not discourage fraud, would not add any real security and would create an additional and significant burden for Ohioans who vote by mail.”
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Fast Facts:
🔺️20,,000 Haitian migrants recently settled in Clark County Ohio (a population of 60,000) -creating one of the largest concentrated Haitian populations relative to city size in the United States.
🔺️Most arrived during the Biden Administration
🔺️Many entered the U.S. through humanitarian parole programs and later qualified for Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
🔺️️Governor DeWine and his wife Fran have maintained deep personal humanitarian ties to Haiti for nearly three decades.
🔺️They support schools in Haiti, including the Becky DeWine School
🔺️They partner with Catholic missions like Father Tom Hagan’s work in places like Cité Soleil
🔺️DeWine repeatedly described the Haitians in Springfield as legal and praised their role in the local economy.
“These Haitians came in to work for these companies… “ He called them “great workers” and “positive influences on our community”
He has said revoking TPS would be “wrong” and a “mistake”
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He claimed that ending work authorization would create “a blow to the economy”
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