Known as House Bill 331 and passed by the Ohio General Assembly late last year with near-unanimous bipartisan support, the new law will require every Ohio county to audit its villages after every decennial census. The audit must be completed within the year after the U.S. census results are published. Failure to meet the audit’s standards will put the fate of the village’s government in the hands of its voters in the next general election that is more than 90 days after the audit’s findings are