In a letter to Ohio’s Democratic Party chair, Secretary of State Frank LaRose warns that the Democratic National Convention will take place after a state deadline to declare a candidate.
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.
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.
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.
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.