On January 24, the Ohio sponsors of the Gary Johnson petition asked the Ohio Supreme Court to reconsider its January 20 decision that Johnson’s vote did not create a new qualified party. Here is the ten-page request. … Continue reading
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On January 20, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that the fact that Gary Johnson got more than 3% of the vote in Ohio in November 2016 does not create a new ballot-qualified party. … Continue reading
Here is the final brief in State ex rel Fockler v Husted, filed on January 9 by the Libertarians who sponsored the Johnson-Weld petition last year. The issue is whether the group’s presidential candidate having received over 3% of the … Continue reading
On January 9, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, 16-580. This is one of the three Ohio Libertarian Party cases that had been pending. This one charged that the 2013 ballot access restrictions … Continue reading
The city charter for Kettering, Ohio, says that city council members must not hold any other public office. One of the members of the Kettering city council, Robert L. Scott, was an Ohio presidential elector. Now a taxpayer in Kettering … Continue reading