Ohio election officials scramble ahead of August vote on state constitution changes

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Aubrey Fox has worked the last eight elections as a poll worker in Lakewood, a suburb west of Cleveland.

"It's something I do on a couple of vacation days a year," Fox said. "I just love being part of democracy."

But Fox says she plans to boycott working a recently announced special election planned for August, a decision that was a turnaround for Republican state lawmakers.

"I just feel it's wrong, and I don't want to participate," Fox said.

The August election has also drawn opposition from local election officials. A GOP-backed state law that took effect in April made a number of changes to voting, including banning most August special elections. But on May 10, Republican lawmakers approved a statewide vote this upcoming August to decide on a resolution to make it harder to amend the Ohio Constitution.