On March 24, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Robert Waters should be restored to the Libertarian Party’s primary ballot. He is a candidate for the party’s nomination for State Representative, 67th district.
The Warren County Board of Elections had disqualified him because his petition to get on the primary ballot failed to fill in the blank, asking for the date of the primary election. However, his petition did carry the information that the office he is seeking has a term that begins in January 2011. The case is State ex rel Eshleman v Fornshell, 2010-0438. The Court said, “No vital public purpose or public interest is served by rejecting his petition.”
Most SANE regimes have the very old *substantial compliance with the law* idea.
Party hack bureaucrats just LOVE rejecting forms that are NOT exactly filled out correctly — keeps them appearing to be useful.
Yet another example of how ridiculous the ballot access process is in so many states.
Ohio quite frankly, “stinks” with minor party ballot access. And now there is no law so it is amazing it is not a three-ring circus.
The OTHER PROBLEM are the local County Board of Elections. Only 2 people from each major party are allowed on the BOE’s. Funny, with many Ohio counties having 40% or more of the voters claiming to be unaffiliated/ independents, yet NO indepedent/unaffiliated or minor party citizens are allowed to sit on county BOE’s.
Only in Ohio