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This election, 26 local issues appeared on the ballots in Athens County. All but two of them passed.
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Data: Ohio House of Representatives 2015
DataI recently compiled a spreadsheet of every vote taken by the Ohio House of Representatives in 2015. It was extremely tedious and time-consuming, so hopefully someone else out there who needs this information can benefit from downloading my data set here rather than having to sort through all those session journals themselves.
Taxpayers test their memories to prevent crime
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Some taxpayers may have to take a quiz to prove their identity to receive a tax return as part of a new screening system implemented by The Ohio Department of Taxation.
The four-question multiple choice quiz is the most noticeable of the changes made to cut down on tax return fraud and identity theft, according to Ohio Department of Taxation Communications Director Gary Gudmundson.
“We felt that we really had to take these extra measures to protect taxpayer dollars,” Gudmundson said. “[This] doubles the assurances that refunds are going out to the right people and not criminals.”
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