[OT] My State is Illegally Preventing Me From Voting In The Upcoming 2018 US Elections

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

I sincerely apologize for the OT, but AFAIK, I don't have anywhere else 
to post. Please rm/delete/ban/etc... as appropriate, I take full 
responsibility. This is a (potentially inappropriate) "CYA" (Covering my 
"A 55") posting, so please delete/rm/ban/etc. as necessary, if applicable.

https://semitwist.com/articles/article/view/my-state-is-illegally-preventing-me-from-voting-in-the-upcoming-2018-us-elections

I am a 36-year-old, legal resident of Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio, 
United States. I have been a legal resident of this county for most of 
my life, and a legal resident of this state for my entire life, since 
the day I was born (an event which is also documented to have occurred 
in Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio, United States). I have never been 
arrested (nor convicted) of a felony, nor a misdemeanor. Yesterday 
(September 8, 2018), I (along with most of the city) received the 
following letter in the mail:

http://semitwist.com/Ohio_Letter_Front.jpeg
http://semitwist.com/Ohio_Letter_Back.jpeg

Note six things:

1. As most United States citizens are implicitly aware (though the 
government assumes NO responsibility to ensure citizens are aware of 
this), to vote in a United States of America election and have the vote 
legally *count*, a United States citizen MUST vote on the exact day of 
elections, from the exact location determined to be the correct voting 
location for said citizen. This correct voting location is determined 
based on the citizen's address of residence (ie, the mailing address 
where they live). Or at least, this is my best understanding based on 
what I've been told as a natural born citizen of the United States. If 
there is any inaccuracy, it has never been communicated to me either 
directly, nor through any school I have ever attended, nor any mail I 
have ever received, nor anyone I have ever had any contact with.

2. The exception to #1 is by voting through an absentee ballot (which 
comes with its own additional set of regulations and conditions which 
will invalidate the ballot).

3. I have NOT received any other correspondence, besides this exact 
letter, which gives me any information regarding the correct location to 
vote nor how to find the correct location to vote.

4. The letter does NOT tell me where I am supposed to go to vote. 
Instead, it tells me to use the website "www.myohiovote.com" to find out 
where I am supposed to go to vote.

5. If you go to "www.myohiovote.com" (with JavaScript enabled), it 
redirects to "https://www.sos.state.oh.us/elections/voters/"

6. The current Ohio Secretary of State is Jon Husted (Republican): 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Husted

Here's the clincher: On said website, "www.myohiovote.com" (ie, 
"https://www.sos.state.oh.us/elections/voters/"), via the one and only 
link to "Find My Polling Location", if you select my county (Lake 
County) and provide my address[1], the only response the [clearly 
badly-designed] website provides is "Based upon the data input, no 
records have been found. Please modify your search criteria."

[1] The official street name is precisely "Smugglers Cove" (That's 
correct, no apostrophe. And yes, the street name is unintentionally 
hilarious.) For privacy purposes, I obviously won't provide the exact 
house number, but given basic Internet map searching abilities, it 
shouldn't be difficult to come up with a valid four-digit house number 
beginning with "3".

I have already informed both the website and the Secretary of the 
State's office (via both email and via the website itself, via 
https://www.sos.state.oh.us/secretary-husted-office/contact-our-office/contact-us-agency/) 
of this problem. We'll see what, if anything, comes of it. I will update 
as I receive any information.