Biden might not make Ohio ballot (UPDATE: DeWine calls special session to change law)

[Minnesota Mike]

This law has been in effect since 2014. The 2020 Republican convention was August 24–27 which is also technically too late.

In the back of my mind I seem to recall something like this coming up before and the courts ruling in favor of of the national party. I'm going to have to do some googling.

[Minnesota Mike]

I'm 99.99999999% sure Joe Biden/Kamala Harris will be on the ballot as Democrats in Ohio but should the Republican SOS and Legislature play games Biden Harris could run as Independents with 5,000 signatures by August 7th.

[Minnesota Mike]

I'm 99.99999999% sure Joe Biden/Kamala Harris will be on the ballot as Democrats in Ohio but should the Republican SOS and Legislature play games Biden Harris could run as Independents with 5,000 signatures by August 7th.

This would certainly result in the highest number of counties a third-party candidate has won since 1992 (Perot won 15 counties nationwide in 1992 (not consequential at all, of course, but interesting factoid).

Since we are already in fantasy land Democrats could just have fun with it and run an "Independent" ticket of Tim Ryan/Lebron James.

[Minnesota Mike]

This law has been in effect since 2014. The 2020 Republican convention was August 24–27 which is also technically too late.

In the back of my mind I seem to recall something like this coming up before and the courts ruling in favor of of the national party. I'm going to have to do some googling.

You're thinking of Minnesota in 2016. The GOP didn't do its paperwork properly and was in danger of being kept off the ballot but MN Supreme Court basically said "no, that's stupid" and left Trump on.

Thank you. Of all states I should have known that one

[Minnesota Mike]

Alabama is trying the same thing.

https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/alabama-secretary-of-state-says-democratic-convention-too-late-to-get-biden-on-ballot-this-fall.html

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has notified the state and national Democratic parties that the scheduled date of the Democratic National Convention is a few days after the deadline for the party to put its nominees for president and vice president on the ballot for the general election in November.