President Joe Biden is facing a potential obstacle in a key swing state as Ohio lawmakers failed to pass any measures on Wednesday that would secure his spot on the presidential ballot this November.
The legislation is necessary because the Democrat National Convention, where Biden will be officially nominated, falls after Ohio’s filing deadline for the ballot, and there are no existing loopholes in the state law to make an exception.
“The House and Senate floated separate proposals this week that would change the certification deadline to 74 days before the Nov. 5 election. Under current law, state officials must certify the ballot by Aug. 7 − 90 days beforehand − but Biden won’t be nominated until the Democratic National Convention 12 days later,” Dispatch reported.
“Wednesday ended with no plan to get the president and presumptive Democratic nominee on Ohio’s ballot. And the clock is running out: Secretary of State Frank LaRose said lawmakers had until Thursday to change the deadline. Bills typically take 90 days to become law unless they have an emergency clause attached to them,” the report said.
But Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has insisted that the president’s name will be on the ballot no matter what has to be done, be it legislation or the courts.
“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,” he said on Wednesday. “The president’s name is going to be on the ballot.”
House Minority Leader Allison Russo expressed doubt that a legislative solution will be reached but emphasized that the Democrat Party still has alternative options available.
“We see once again that politicians and the politics and playing games with this piece of legislation ruled the day,” she said. “I think we’ve officially sunk lower than Alabama at this point.”
A bipartisan proposal was put forth that would have impacted both current and future elections.
It would have granted a Party the ability to officially endorse its nominee either 74 days before an election or within three days after their convention, whichever came first.
However, Republicans introduced a temporary solution that aimed to block foreign citizens or green card holders from contributing to ballot campaigns.
This move ultimately thwarted Democratic support for the bipartisan proposal.
“We use the word compromise a lot,” Republican Senate President Matt Huffman said. “I think this is a reasonable result. There’s some things for both sides to like and dislike. It gets these two issues resolved for the upcoming election.”
Nickie Antonio, the Senate Minority Leader for the Democrats, expressed a differing opinion.
“There wasn’t something for us to love and hate,” she said. “It wasn’t a compromise. It was frankly a dirty trick and we didn’t take the bait.”
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has remained firm on the deadline, citing Ohio law as the reason for his decision not to move it.
“The facts are still very clear on this,” he said. “The Democrats scheduled their nominating convention too late to comply with Ohio law, and they’ve admitted that this unforced error creates a problem for their presidential candidate that needs to be fixed.”
In April, LaRose stated that the Democrats would need to alter their convention date or the Republican-controlled Ohio State Legislature would have to change the law to accommodate them in order to resolve the issue.
“I am left to conclude that the Democratic National Committee must either move up its nominating convention or the Ohio General Assembly must act by May 9, 2024 (90 days prior to a new law’s effective date) to create an exception to this statutory requirement,” Secretary of State’s spokesman Paul Disantis told the Party.
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What LaRose actually said was Biden will be on the ballot no matter how many laws we have to break.
The left stream media and dem politicians are following orders to stop supporting senile joe so it will
be easier for the despicable neo-Marxist party to dump and replace him with another candidate.
It should NEVER be passed. Pedo Joe did this to himself and should be made to pay for his own IGNORANCE. If this were President Trump to be in this position every Democrap out there would be saying not to pass the bill and Cheering because it failed. So GREAT NEWS it failed hopefully they NEVER pass it. Pedo Joe did this by trying to VIOLATE the CONSTITUTION which leaves Voting Laws to the States. He also tried to force other states to violate their Constitutions. Now he has to pay for his trying to be a DICTATOR what he tries to call President Trump yet he(PedovJoe) is the one VIOLATING the CONSTITUTION and REFUSING to abide by the Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court.
I say leave pedo Joe off and take that worthless. Republican, that demands that the Pado child molester will be on there. He is no Republican. He is probably lizbo cheney butt love
Yep, it’s starting already. The democrats cheat has begun. If somehow dementia joe gets on this Ohio ballot now, the republicans should start the court procedures right away or contacting US Supreme Court. Democrats screwed up their dates to be registered, and that date has passed. It will be interesting to see how they go about to get sh!tpantsjoe on the ballet. They’ve lied and made up new rules for them in the past to benefit them, so we see.
Just more Democrat , the laws and rules are for you! But not for me!