Ohio Senate Bill 10 is dead. The bill passed the State Senate unanimously last year, but it never received any action in the House. It would have eliminated primary elections when only one person files for a particular office. It would have eliminated the ability of primary voters to nominate a write-in candidate in such elections.
The 2017-2018 session is almost over. Although the Senate is in session, the House will not hold any more proceedings, so the bill can’t advance.
Ohio should eliminate exclusionary partisan primaries.
If there is only one candidate for election, there is no problem with eliminating the election. This is done in Florida, Louisiana, and some cases in Texas.
14-2 SUBVERTED in ALL the NO candidate elections.
@DR,
If there is no one to vote for, your right to vote is not abridged.
Why did the 39th Congress mention ANY offices in 14-2 ???
How about NO elections in the States – just self-appointed HACKS ???
Would JR fit in with the rest of the current SCOTUS HACKS ???
How about *denied* in 14-2 ???
The FAILURE to enforce 14-2 [UNIVERSAL adult male USA Citizen RIGHT to vote] is one of the bigger failures of ALL the USELESS USA regimes since 1868 — a mere 150 years.
The EVIL rotted slave State oligarchs kept the lower class whites ignorant/stupid
— using them as cannon fodder in 1861-1865.
IE Such States were as EVIL rotted as the Stalin/Hitler regimes.
The initial 14-2 was for ALL offices – amended to only the major offices —
was gone over and over and over from Dec 1865 to June 1866.
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The oligarchy ROT continues in the southern States — keep most of the population poor and stupid — whites and esp. blacks.
@DR,
Because they did not want it to apply to party primaries?
Isn’t 14-2 dead, like letters of marque?
As JR surely knows —
primaries are part of the election *process*.
14-2 dormant — due to NON-enforcement by the USA regime useless HACKS.
Private usual suspects also too useless to enforce it — see also 2 US code 6.
LOTS of court perversions since 1868.
Believe that letters of marque were abolished by major treaty ???
USA Const to be wiped out by USA Senator OLIGARCHY HACKS in another treaty — or via Civil WAR II ???
See the de facto end of the Roman Republic by the Roman Senate in 27 BC —
Augustus Caesar made very special — Emperor TYRANT and TYRANNY for 500 years until TOTAL regime destruction.
@DR,
14-2 does not apply to municipal elections, but Equal protection might. US v Classic was based on Article I, and not on Equal Protection, or abridgement of the right to vote.
In Ohio, a voter affiliates with a party by voting in the primary. If they are affiliated with a party, the only way to switch is to run for office – since these are the only persons permitted to file a party affiliation chane.
So if someone went to vote and were told there was no Libertarian ballot, they might choose to vote in the Republican or Democratic primary. They would then be ineligible to sign a Libertarian candidate petition at a subsequent primary. This would reduce the pool of potental candidate petition signers.
Ohio should eliminate partisan nomination, and the notion of qualified parties. Ohio could either use Top 2, or a runoff to ensure majority support, and to allay concerns about spoler candidates.