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Tentative Ohio Ruling in Now Final; Ohio Has 6 Political Parties on 2010 Ballot
December 31st, 2009
On December 31, an earlier Ohio Secretary of State ruling on ballot-qualified parties for the 2010 election was officially promulgated to county election boards in Ohio.
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Green Party candidate for Ohio governor, and current member of the Sruthers City School Board, Dennis Spisak was interviewed on Ohio Public Radio recently. You can listen here. …
Surya Yalamanchili, who is only 28 years old, has officially announced an independent bid for Congress in Ohio’s second district, currently held by Republican Jean Schmidt. …
Reported in Ballot Access News:
Because Ohio has no valid law in place on how a group becomes a qualified party, and because no bill to create a valid law is close to passing, the Ohio Secretary of State will leave the Constitution, Green, Libertarian, and Socialist Parties on the ballot for the 2010 election.…
In a rare two-way race between two members of a third party, a member of the Green Party is beating out a member of the Communist Party for a seat on the Cleveland City Council. …
Cincinnati, Ohio blogger and Green Party candidate for Board of Education Jason Haap unleashed a scandal when he criticized the Save-A-Life Foundation on his blog. He said that they were teaching schoolchildren to use the Heimlech maneuver on drowning victims, which is not the proper proceducre. …
Posted by Dennis Spisak at Green Party Watch:
Ohio’s Dennis Spisak’s Petitions Certified, on the ballot in November
Dennis Spisak, one of the first Greens elected in Ohio back in 2005, has had his petitions certified by the Mahoning County Board of Elections and will seek re-election to the Struthers City Schools Board of Education this November 3, 2009.…
Ohio’s Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reports this morning that Libertarian presidential hopeful Wayne Allyn Root “is backing fellow Libertarian Sean Kalin Stipe” for Lorain City Council, “according to a news release from Stipe.…
Posted in Ballot Access News. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.
On April 22, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner released a 36-page set of recommendations for changes in Ohio election laws.…