“Oops!” is the word out of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the county seat of Wyandot County, and it didn’t exactly take a modern day Sherlock Holmes to figure that out.

I was the Libertarian Party candidate for US Senate in Ohio this year. When I was reviewing the county-by-county voting results in Ohio’s 88 counties, I was amazed and dumbfounded to see that Greg Levy, the US Senate candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (although his party was not identified on Ohio’s ballot) earned 11.49% of the vote in a conservative leaning county, when the highest vote percentage he had earned in any other county was 3.26%.

https://liveresults.ohiosos.gov/

Now comes word that the results of a mock election in one precinct done beforehand to test the voting equipment were not deleted before actual voting commenced. The mistake did not alter the results of any election, and the results will be corrected before final vote totals are released.

Here is the story: https://www.cleveland.com/open/2026/11/ohio-county-corrects-election-results-after-finding-mock-votes-mixed-in.html.

My vote total will probably be reduced, as well, but I should retain more votes in Wyandot County than Greg Levy. I got more votes than Greg Levy in 84 of Ohio’s 88 counties. Mr. Levy got more votes than I in Athens County (home of Ohio University) and the counties of “The Three C’s,” Cuyahoga, Franklin and Hamilton counties.

Harvard Professor Danielle Allen has a substack titled “The Renovator.” The November 10 edition has this commentary on the strict Massachusetts ballot access requirements for primary candidates, especially U.S. House candidates. Massachusetts has the most severe primary petition requirement in the nation for U.S.House.