I think this is it
Ohio Revised Code
3513.052 (B) The secretary of state or a board of elections shall not accept for filing a declaration of candidacy and petition, a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, or a nominating petition of a person seeking to become a candidate if that person, for the same election, has already filed a declaration of candidacy, a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, or a nominating petition, or has become a candidate through party nomination at a primary election or by the filling of a vacancy under section 3513.30 or 3513.31 of the Revised Code for:
(1) Any federal, state, or county office, if the declaration of candidacy, declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, or nominating petition is for a state or county office;
(2) Any municipal or township office, or for member of a city, local, or exempted village board of education, or for member of a governing board of an educational service center, if the declaration of candidacy, declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, or nominating petition is for a municipal or township office, or for member of a city, local, or exempted village board of education, or for member of a governing board of an educational service center.
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3513.052
Has Trump even filed papers yet in Ohio? That is a plain reading of the law. If he hasn’t yet, then plain reading says he may file papers as a member of the Green Goddess Dressing Party if he hasn’t already filed.
If I read this correctly, and I’m not saying that I am - it says a person who has been nominated. I wish they would write things in common, every day language, and less with the legal wording.
I’m not sure but looking at 3513.052 (G) it might be possible to withdraw your candidacy before the cutoff date and then seek another party’s nomination.
I haven’t looked too closely at Ohio’s laws, so I could be all wrong.
If this is the correct statute, a plain reading would be that anyone who:
1) Files a declaration of candidacy;
2) Files a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate;
3) Files a nominating petition;
4) Becomes a candidate through nomination in a primary;
5) Becomes a candidate by filing a vacancy (my guess, without reading the other part of the statute, is that this is when the candidate who won the party nomination withdraws from the race, and is replaced by another candidate)
...cannot file to run in the same race again.
As a practical matter, I don’t see how participating in a Republican party primary debate for President falls under any of the above five ways the “sore loser” law comes into effect. Unless there is some alternative case law on the subject, or this is some area of the law where the judges are under the thumb of the politicians in review of the decisions made, I suspect Husted would lose any challenge to a third-party declaration on this ground on appeal.
hmm - I seem to recall in a recent election that there was at least one candidate that was on the ballot for multiple parties as their nominee. I think it was something like the green and progressive parties or some such thing. Person had won each parties nomination, so I’m not sure how they got around this process to file the applications. I’m in Ohio.