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Apparently, Jon Husted has been reading esrati.com Ohio’s elections chief is seeking a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss elements of federal law that he says are preventing the state from maintaining accurate voter rolls. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted (HYOO’-sted) says he sent a letter to Holder on Friday containing [...]
I’m not going to tell you how to vote. That would be pompous and very Dayton Daily News like (although rumor had it- they don’t endorse anymore- I don’t know since iOS5 came out- their iPad app has been broken- so I can’t see the editorials). But, because I tend to tell all when it [...]
An under-publicized candidates’ night was apparently held last night at the Wesley Center. The Dayton Daily News reported about 40 in attendance. Take out the entourages, and you probably have 25 voters. Of course, we only have 4 candidates, no primary, and no real choices. If “none of the above” were on the ballot, it [...]
Before we go into any discussion about the hiring processes in place in the City of Dayton- one must ask how a problem can last this long, with no resolution in sight. This has been an issue for twenty years (I had a position on the “consent decree” in my first literature when I ran [...]
Not that Jon Husted is the brightest bulb in the box- but, he is on to something (for all the wrong reasons). We currently have 88 different boards of elections, all run differently, all using one of 5 lame software systems for keeping voter rolls, and using one of 3 electronic voting systems. Yes, we [...]
The Board of Elections stands between the people and the primary. Instead of letting the people decide who should advance to a general election, the sacred law says you must turn in 500 “valid signatures” of registered Dayton voters. It’s the LAW. So, signatures that they can’t read- or aren’t close enough to a signature [...]
When I circulate petitions- I can’t walk through City Hall and hit every desk along the way as former Mayor Richard Clay Dixon used to do. I also can’t circulate my petition inside priority board offices, at the RTA transit hub or on city property as I’ve been told. Yet- we have our current elected [...]
Last June, I reported on a lawsuit you didn’t hear about in the Dayton Daily News. Unfortunately- I didn’t follow up and post the outcome of the suit either, which I’m about to rectify. Here’s a bit of what I wrote then: C. Ralph Wilcoxson, II may be one of my new personal heroes. A [...]
Without doing the in-depth legal analysis of where the City is not only wrong- but dead wrong in its adherence to the Charter, I’m providing you with a PDF including 6 different opinions on the issues of ballot access. It’s funny- that somethings have to be filled out just right- somethings require “substantial compliance” and [...]
According to the Board of Elections, we have 100,792 registered voters. According to the Census we have 141,527 residents. Simple math says 71% of our residents are registered to vote. But, wait- we have residents under 18, and therefore not eligible to vote- according to the census bureau, in Ohio, 23.5% are under 18. That [...]