Ohio has an Election Commission, which regulates campaign finance and also has a role in setting up gubernatorial general election debates. Ohio law says the Commission must have seven members: three Democrats, three Republicans, and a person who is not a member of any party. Therefore it is impossible for a member of any other party to ever serve on the Commission.

On August 13, the party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal. Libertarian Party of Ohio v Crites, number not yet assigned. The lower courts had upheld the law. Here is the cert petition.

On August 12, proponents of a local initiative in Bridgeport, Ohio, asked the Ohio Supreme Court to reconsider its opinion earlier this month. That opinion says the local initiative should not be on the ballot because the proponents didn’t submit the petition to the Village Clerk. The opinion says that Mary Lyle was the village clerk on all three days when the proponents tried to submit the petition, April 28, June 29, and July 16. Here is the request for reconsideration.

The request for reconsideration points out that Mary Lyle did not take the position of Village Clerk until July 1, 2021, and the person who was Village Clerk before her did not offer any testimony in the lawsuit. State ex rel Schmitt v Bridgeport, 2021-0878.

Utah supporters of “top-five” will try to qualify an initiative for their idea. The initiative requires 138,000 signatures, due in February 2022. See this story.