It was more like a half day, running from 2 p.m. to 4:45. I was a witness, and was ordered to be sequestered for the first hour so as not to hear BOE director Betty Smith’s testimony, so I couldn’t cover the whole thing for you. I did tape my part of the proceedings and Read More
From the Board of Elections: GARY D LEITZELL – DAYTON MAYOR Candidate GARY D LEITZELL Number of Required Signatures 500 Number of Valid Signatures 835 Performance index 75% 1120 signatures, 835 valid Verified Part Petitions: 37 Circulator Signature Count: 1120 Verified Signature Count: 1051 Valid Signature Count: 835 Detail of Invalid Signatures 4 Lined out Read More
As someone who has filed to run for office a whole bunch of times, I can tell you there is chapter and verse on every possible way to keep a candidate off the ballot. We’ve even had people rejected for the type of paper they used for their petitions. So, when the Ohio House and Read More
In an opinion piece in the Dayton Daily we find this gem: Montgomery County’s Steven Harsman does acknowledge that the names of dead people have shown up on petitions gathered to get candidates and issues on the ballot. But, he says, “They get deleted, because their signatures don’t match” the signatures on their registration forms. Read More
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 Read More
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