Fuckery. More is on the way. They know they can’t win without fuckery.
Usually I’d agree, but this looks like regular every day DNC incompetence.
No, August 19th isn’t unusually late for a convention. For instance the Republican convention wasn’t until August 24th-27th in 2020. Looks like Ohio has a weird early deadline that they routinely make exceptions to. If they try to keep Biden off the ballot it would be Ohio/republican fuckery.
The date of the convention and the date of Ohio’s deadline for candidates are otherwise fine, except that they conflict. In 2016 both parties nominated in July.
Ohio’s deadline was moved to 90 days before the election fourteen years ago. And yes they’ve passed an exemption twice since then, indicating it’s a dumb date for them to use, but it’s not particularly partisan since both parties have needed the exemption.
The DNC messed up the scheduling. It’s that simple.
Pick a different venue, pick a different date, or get the special exemption the SoS recommended. All will resolve the issue.
It does not appear to be “Ohio republiQan fuckery” as much as a standard law the DNC didn’t know about and didn’t check, or knew about and (wanted?) needs a special legislative exemption.
And downvoting someone for saying so is erring on the side of dickishness.
Anything LaRose does is fuckery.
In 2020 the Democratic Convention was also in August. They worked it out last time or maybe Ohio was just more agreeable in that election.
There was no problem in 2016, because both major parties nominated in July. But in 2020, it was again a problem, because the Republican convention chose Donald Trump and Mike Pence on August 24 in Charlotte. Because of covid, that was a scaled down convention, with only 6 delegates from each state and proxy voting permitted. It is believed that the Ohio legislature passed a bill again setting an exemption for 2020.
Yeah, it seems pretty dumb, but that’s what they got.
Exemption for Republicans at an even later date in 2020 but not this year for democrats? Sounds like fuckery to me. It’s not a real deadline if they just always exempt for it. And changing venues or dates is incredibly unrealistic for a convention of this size. Ohio should change the dumb law to line up better with other states. Do we really need laws encouraging the presidential election cycle to take up even more time? It should be shorter if anything.
Stop it, bot.
Bad bot.
The American electoral system is an absolute joke.
If it’s a joke, it’s that joke that the 4 yo got a hold of and told until isn’t funny any more.
Ohio has accrued an exceptional collection of very fat bespectacled middle aged white fascists
So blue states aren’t allowed to disqualify Trump but red states (idgaf about the purple trend Ohio is red) are allowed to do whatever they want?
When do the firebombings start?
Good Lord this is just pathetic reporting. How is there not more information here? Even a barely competent reporter should at least include basic information to either support or counter the claims made. It’s just common sense. It should also include things like has this happened before? Does the other parties come before that deadline? When was the deadline set and by whom? How common is it? Etc…
Just pedestrian
Everyone is treating this like this guy is actively saying Biden isn’t going to be on the ballot. But he’s just saying dates conflict and it’s a minor problem than needs to be fixed. Seems like no bigger deal than a work email from that annoying coworker pointing out some minor problem like it’s a huge issue. Yes Carl, I know we won’t have enough paper for the copier to last the rest of the quarter. I’ll order more. It’s fine.
It doesn’t seem to be quite as easy as you’re making it seem. Says it would require action from the Ohio legislature. That’s more daunting than you might think.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ohio’s secretary of state on Friday signaled that the Democratic National Convention may take place too late for President Joe Biden to appear on the general election ballot in the state, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.
“The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which occurs more than a week after the August 7 deadline to certify a presidential candidate to the office,” Secretary of State Frank LaRose wrote to Ohio Democratic Party Chairwoman Liz Walters.
ABC News first reported about the existence and content of this letter.
In the note, LaRose goes on to say that the oversight can be rectified in two ways: either by the Democratic Party moving up its nominating convention or by getting the Ohio state legislature to “create an exemption to this statutory requirement” by May 9 in accordance with state law.
A spokesperson for the Biden campaign told NBC News that the campaign is “monitoring the situation in Ohio and we’re confident that Joe Biden will be on the ballot in all 50 states.”
Biden nonetheless won the New Hampshire primary on a write-in campaign.
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