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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
 

Older Voters Alienated?.
By Jo Ingles - January 3, 2006
While lawmakers in the Ohio House and Senate try to reconcile two different versions of election reform bills, the Ohio League of Women Voters is asking them to look at something else. League spokeswoman Peg Rosenfield says the current proposals both require certain forms of identification that might alienate older voters living in assisted living facilities or nursing homes.


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Rosenfield says the final election reform bill should include better poll worker training and should not make it harder to conduct voter registration drives.

Jo Ingles reports ()


 
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