On July 4, the Ohio Green Party put out a press release, blasting the legislature for passing HB 194, the omnibus election law bill that the state claims cures the constitutional defect in the old ballot access law that was struck down in 2006. See this story.
However, GovernorJohn Kasich has not signed the bill yet. And even if he does, it is possible the Secretary of State will rule that the four qualified minor parties (Constitution, Green, Libertarian and Socialist) should remain on the ballot through 2012. The previous Secretary of State already ruled they should be on for the various local partisan elections in 2011.
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According to this press release from the Secretary of State, the Governor signed HB 194 on July 1: http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/PressReleases/2011/2011-0701.aspx
How many retarded brain dead party hack regimes do NOT know how to enact constitutional ballot access laws — i.e. to do the minimum to get past the party hack SCOTUS folks ???
#2, thank you. It is odd that the Ohio legislature did not show that the governor had signed the bill even as late as July 7. I guess the legislative web page doesnºt get updated very often, relative to gubernatorial actions.