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Amy Acton: Signed the order closing Ohio's polling places for the March 17, 2020 primary, the night before, after a judge declined to postpone the election. Gov. Mike DeWine announced the decision; the legislature then set April 28, 2020 as the deadline for a primary held by mail.
Order · March 16, 2020
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This is one of 12 dated entries in Amy Acton's record in office on this site, filed as a order dated March 16, 2020. The sentence above is the entry as this site states it; anyone else's reading of it is listed below in their words.
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- Date
- 2020-03-16
- Evaluations
- Gov. Mike DeWine, as quoted by PolitiFact
- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/may/13/vivek-ramaswamy/Amy-Acton-Ohio-2020-covid-primary-senate/
- Said
- they were my decisions, so no one should blame someone else if they don't like it, the buck stops with me
- Url
- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/may/13/vivek-ramaswamy/Amy-Acton-Ohio-2020-covid-primary-senate/
- Then-state Sen. Matt Huffman (R), on the Senate floor, March 25, 2020, as quoted by the Statehouse News Bureau
- https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-04-21/ohio-governor-race-ramaswamys-anti-acton-ad-leaves-out-details-about-march-2020-primary
- Said
- The election of March 17 was not canceled
- Url
- https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-04-21/ohio-governor-race-ramaswamys-anti-acton-ad-leaves-out-details-about-march-2020-primary
- Kind
- order
- What
- Signed the order closing Ohio's polling places for the March 17, 2020 primary, the night before, after a judge declined to postpone the election. Gov. Mike DeWine announced the decision; the legislature then set April 28, 2020 as the deadline for a primary held by mail.
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- https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/6f/40/66a8d51444f49f0a327300e286b6/odh-acton-health-order-march-17-2020-primary.pdf
- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/16/816610353/ohio-officials-requestpostponing-
- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/may/13/vivek-ramaswamy/Amy-Acton-Ohio-2020-covid-primary-senate/
- https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-04-21/ohio-governor-race-ramaswamys-anti-acton-ad-leaves-out-details-about-march-2020-primary
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