Posted on 04/07/2024 5:52:14 PM PDT by MtnClimber
On Friday, Ohio’s Secretary of State sent some very bad news to the Ohio Democratic Party: The deadline for certifying a presidential candidate to appear on Ohio’s ballot is August 7. However, the DNC convention isn’t being held until August 19. Until then, despite his current status as the Democrat frontrunner, Biden isn’t technically the Democrat party candidate. This is a huge egg-on-the-face moment for the DNC. While the situation can be remedied, that it happened reflects the anti-meritocracy that the left has become.
Democrats have been holding nominating conventions since 1832. In the ensuing 192 years, late August/early September conventions have occurred, although they’ve been rare.
In the early days, conventions were held in May, although the 1864 convention was held on the last three days of August. After the Civil War, June or July became the norm, and the Democrats didn’t hold another “end of August” convention until one hundred years later, in 1964, something they repeated in 1968. The next “end of August” convention was in 1996. Obama was nominated on August 28, 2008, and again on September 6, 2012. In 2020, Joe Biden got the nomination on August 20.
This year, though, the August 19 convention is going to be a problem. It turns out that, per current rules governing ballots in Ohio, the Secretary of State must have the names of certified candidates by August 7:
There could be potential general election ballot access concerns for President Joe Biden in Ohio, the state’s Secretary of State’s office said in a letter to Ohio Democratic Chair Liz Walters on Friday.
In the letter, obtained by ABC News, legal counsel for Secretary of State Frank LaRose sought clarification for “an apparent conflict in Ohio law” between the Democratic National Committee’s nominating process and the deadline...
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Leadership that is not based on merit.
Gawd I wish this was MI.
They’ll find a Rat Party appointee to overturn this.
Nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled.
Biden has as much chance of not being on the Ohio ballot as he does of becoming Israel’s Man of the Year.
Michelle asks; “What’s everybody looking at me for?
I haven’t said nothing about running for president!”
Oh, I think they've been mis-informed. It's 2024. There are no rules.
This is too delicious.
“It turns out that, per current rules governing ballots in Ohio, the Secretary of State must have the names of certified candidates by August 7”
I’m sure this was somehow intended to screw President Trump.
Of course, a lot depends upon definitions.
Gawd I wish this was MI.
>>>Or, PA, or Wisconsin, or Georgia, or Arizona, I might add!!!
I’m sure a judge will ignore the rules and decree Biden on eligible for the ballot.
Will effect the Popular vote.
This also puts a hitch in the last-minute switcheroo.
How many Biden voters can spell his name if they have to write him in?
Exactly! OH was never in danger unfortunately.
“ While the situation can be remedied…”
That would be poetic justice.
They will have a massive write in campaign. I actually think it makes it worse.
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