Biden may have trouble getting on Ohio's general election ballot, state's top election official warns
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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.

[insert Skibidi Pomni Ohio Gyatt Rizz joke here]

Basically they’ll only certify a candidate if they’re officially nominated by August 7 and the DNC only starts on the 19th lol

RFK’s gonna get second place in a state let’s gooo agony-wholesome

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I noticed it also gave a May 9th deadline to get a statutory exemption, so I went hunting

    Seems likely he’ll be on ballot

    I don’t want to minimize that this has to happen, but I do want to minimize anybody thinking that there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that this isn’t going to happen," DeWine [Governor, R] said Wednesday. "The president’s name is going to be on the ballot.

    Buuuutt…

    House leaders introduced a bipartisan proposal on Tuesday to put Biden on the ballot and prevent future scheduling conflicts. For 2028 and beyond, parties that couldn’t meet the 90-day deadline would be allowed to certify candidates either 74 days before the election or within three days of their convention, whichever comes first.

    But Senate Republicans pursued a different path, one that Democrats cast as a poison pill and refused to support. They folded a one-time deadline fix into a bill that would ban foreign citizens and U.S. residents with green cards from donating to ballot campaigns. It’s already illegal for non-U.S. citizens to give money to candidates.