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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Didnt we just decide that a state can't decide to keep someone off the ballot? Or is that only if they do something trivial, like an insurrection, instead of something serious, like late paperwork.
- I think the big issue is when the DNC set their schedule they didn't check state deadlines...
  Maybe I was wrong about NH, I thought the DNC couldn't possibly stupid enough they didn't know they were asking NH state Dems to break election law.
  But if they're not even checking when they have to notify states of their delegates to get on the ballot?
  They're apparently this stupid and should be nowhere near anything important.
  Hell, the current chair is there because of his lobbyist work and donor connections. That's what determines level of power in the DNC, how much money you bring in. All that money and not a clue how to effectively run a party.
  
  This is unfortunately seemingly like the most likely argument, and it pisses me off.
- There's centuries of precedent that states can decide who's on the ballot, except when it comes to insurrection, apparently.
- States decide the procedures for getting onto the ballot.
  The SCOTUS ruling is that states cannot apply the 14th amendment to keep someone off of the ballot, which is a separate issue from whether the party/candidate followed the proper process for getting onto the ballot in the first place.
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.
There's a third way: just file the paperwork on time. The convention is a formality, particularly this year when there is no doubt about the outcome I bet the party puts in a lot of paperwork before the actual convention.
April 6, 2024, 9:11 AM PDT / Updated April 6, 2024, 11:43 AM PDT
By Emma Barnett and Alexandra Marquez
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.
Two authors. Two updates. Two paragraphs. Two million ads. No more info - that’s the whole thing.
I’m all for news, but in its incompleteness a clickbait emerges imho and is just another piece of the media selling to us instead of telling to us.
“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.
The people running the DNC are completely incompetent...
Why are the American public so reliant on private political organizations that keep fucking shit up?
- Because the private political organizations have the power to keep it that way and so far life isn't bad enough for enough people to cause a literal class war.
- Because we were never given a choice in the matter, and they’re not going to start giving us one now.
It's ILLEGAL to keep someone off the Ballot I thought?
- Illegal how?
  States have processes for deciding who is on the ballot. All candidates who wish to be on the ballot must follow those processes, including the incumbent president.
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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