The Ohio Senate is scheduled to pass HB 194 on Thursday, June 23. This is an omnibus election law bill backed by the Secretary of State. It moves the primary from March to May. Existing law says the primary in … Continue reading
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On June 10, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted issued a directive to Ohio county election boards. The directive forbids them from checking petition validity before the entire petition has been submitted. This is unfortunate, because Ohio petition validity in … Continue reading
On May 24, Todd Grayson, communications director for the Ohio Libertarian Party, was appointed to the city council of Perrysburg, Ohio. Perrysburg is a city of 21,000 in northwest Ohio. It has nonpartisan city elections. See this story, which does … Continue reading
On May 24, the Ohio Senate passed SB 148 by a vote of 23-10. Like a somewhat similar bill that has passed the house, HB 194, it attempts to fix the old ballot access law that was held unconstitutional in … Continue reading
On May 18, the Ohio House passed one of the Secretary of State’s omnibus election law bills, HB 194. The bill is apparently an attempt to repair the old law for minor party ballot access, because the old law was … Continue reading