The controversy over whether President Joe Biden will appear on the Ohio ballot is continuing even after national Democrats say they've solved the problem.
A special legislative session that began Tuesday morning was still going on Wednesday at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus. May 2024 Not a soul showed up to testify about what was supposed to be the main purpose of the session, ordered on Thursday by Gov. Mike DeWine. The main purpose of the session was to tweak the state’s filing deadline so President Joe Biden ’s name could appear on the November ballot.
Perhaps the lack of public interest stemmed from national Democrats’ announcement on Tuesday that they will hold a virtual convention vote to nominate Biden well before the Ohio deadline in early August. “I’ve been very careful not to identify all the different ways that things could go wrong giving this kind of power to the attorney general,” said Catherine Turcer, a longtime campaign finance watchdog who now leads Common Cause-Ohio.
“I think there might be a role for the attorney general, but we need to make sure that there are safeguards in place,” he said after the 90-minute hearing. There's no reason to break what we have. It works,” she said, noting violators are turned over to the county prosecutor’s office.The Oversight Committee is supposed to unveil promised changes that many Democrats could accept. But the 10:30 a.m. gathering is scheduled for only a half-hour before the entire House convenes.
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