On July 15, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously put Robert Bender back on the November 2019 ballot as a Libertarian nominee for City Council of Reynoldsburg. This is a partisan election. State ex rel Bender v Franklin County Board of Elections, 2019-Ohio-2854.

Bender had needed 13 valid signatures to get on the Libertarian primary ballot. He submitted 22. After the primary was over (which Bender won by default), the Board of Elections removed him from the general election ballot because someone had challenged his primary petition. But the Supreme Court ruled that the protester didn’t have standing, because he had not voted in a Libertarian primary in either of the last two annual elections.

Here is the nine-page opinion. UPDATE: here is a newspaper story about the outcome.