1y ago

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

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1y ago

Biden might not get on the ballot in Ohio lol

www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/biden-may-trouble-getting-ohios-general-election-ballot-rcna146706

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1y ago

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

www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/biden-may-trouble-getting-ohios-general-election-ballot-rcna146706

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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.
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?
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.
  
  Stop it, bot.
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
Ohio has accrued an exceptional collection of very fat bespectacled middle aged white fascists
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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