Ohio GOP leaders reject Democrats’ plan to get President Joe Biden on November ballot

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1. Simple retaliation in defense of Trump. We knew this was coming.

2. Because, of course they did.

   A full party of unserious people who refuse to actually govern.

3. “Lawmakers could pass an exemption to the 90-day deadline by May 9, as they did in 2020 when both parties scheduled their conventions too late. But the chances of that are slim: Top Democrats said they’re deferring to the Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee, and Republican leaders are unlikely to lend a helping hand.”

4. Why would provisional certification not be acceptable? 

5. The Republicans are just going to leave Biden off the ballot and deal with the consequences (much) later after it’s too late and they already got what they wanted.

   I mean, what are the Democrats going to do if Biden isn’t on the Ohio ballot? Go back in time and run the election again?

6. Frank LaRose is human scum and a threat to democracy in Ohio. At least he lost the Senate primary, though it’s not like Moreno is much better.

7. The miracle of American Democracy is that it actually somehow works despite the appalling way it is organized.

   Gerrymandering, having to triple check you haven’t been kicked out of the voter rolls, the electoral college that gives way much weight to land, state-level arcane rules on certifications, the diversity in vote counting and polling stations sometimes in some people’s garages, then voting on TUESDAYS? Don’t get me started about primaries that are a Hodge-podge of local traditions. The decentralized aspect is the most worrying. These are national elections, ffs.

   If all votes are supposed to be equal, make this a Federal responsibility. Make it a popular vote only.

8. “We have no desire to change our insanely unpopular decisions so we’re going to cheat”

9. Wait, are you fucking kidding me? Is Biden really not going to be on the Ohio ballot?

10. There comes a certain point where you have to start expecting Republicans to maliciously comply with any and every outrageous rule that was historically ignored

    Move the convention date and stop playing with fire. This is such an obvious move that I question whether the Biden team even wants to win

11. Ohioan here.  Voters recently overwhelming approved recreational pot and abortion rights, and downstate R officials were adamant they would not abide by those results. This is the obvious next step for Rs (or, the maga loons at least): disregarding the will of the people, and not hiding their plans

12. Wait… isn’t that *Conspiracy to Defraud the US* via interfering in the election?

13. Gee, do you suppose Thomas and Alito will be as concerned and proactive about this as they were over the attempts to keep Trump off the ballot for insurrection? Somehow I doubt it.

14. Biden should sue based on the Colorado insurrection Supreme Court case – states have no authority to remove federal candidates from the ballot.

15. They’ve gone full fascist

16. As an Ohioan all my life, this is an overreach to be civil. States, including Ohio, have extended this stopgap before and should again.

    A reminder that this election will have untold consequences and events like in 2020/21. Most driven my lies and vitriol.

    Tyranny(sang in Monty Python voice)!?!

17. Actual attempt to steal the election.

18. Funny, I thought the Supreme Court had already decreed that states cannot determine who is on their ballots. They have to run with whoever the party says.

19. I got downvoted for this last time. The GOP is going to cheat. We didn’t punish them in 2020 for trying to overturn the election. They knew they cannot win with Trump, so they are going to cheat.

20. As a counter point to those critiquing the Biden campaign for not solving this problem right away, I think it’s smart to wait. It seems like they could, indeed, meet the requirements by moving the nominating portion up, while keeping the ceremonial convention, and I hope they have plans for this. But I think not doing it right this moment and putting the issue to rest demonstrates political savvy.

    This is incredibly undemocratic in addition to being incredibly petty. The longer this stays in the news, the worse it looks for the Ohio GOP, the national GOP, and the Supreme Court. Maintaining the Senate in 2024 is also key, with Brown’s seat in Ohio in play. The kind of antidemocratic shenanigans the Ohio GOP are pulling here are the same they’ve pulled on not following ballot initiatives. Remember, there are, amazingly, people who still aren’t engaged yet with this election cycle. So, I think the longer this stays in the news the better.

21. Why is it always Ohio. Can my state just… not? For like 5 fucking minutes.

22. For a party that constantly whines about election interference the Republicans sure don’t mind committing it! They have lost my vote forever.

23. This is idiotic.

    >”Instead, the law mandates the Democratic Party to actually certify its president and vice-president candidates on or before August 7, 2024,” Julie M. Pfeiffer, an attorney on Yost’s staff, told LaRose’s legal counsel. “No alternative process is permitted.”

    I’m sorry, but that’s bullshit and Democrats should sue. You can’t just yank the actual act of putting someone on the ballot coz of some silly ass “deadline” crap. The Supreme Court of the United States literally sided with orange in a 9-0 ruling saying no state can unilaterally prevent someone from being on the ballot. And in Orange’s case, it was despite the fact that a court found him to have participated in a fucking insurrection.

    Republicans really live in a world of their own. Do they really, genuinely think they can prevent Biden, who is currently president, and is the incumbent Democratic candidate, from being on the ballot? Coz even if the supreme court goes against the precedent they set like *last month*, then all bets are off and orange won’t be on the ballot in a whole host of states as a reuslt of the SCOTUS flip-flopping on the issue. Isn’t that what the SCOTUS said they wanted to avoid?

    I’m sorry but a “deadline” is a whole world *less serious” an issue than a goddamn fucking insurrection.

24. Supreme court said that states can’t run federal elections.

25. Republicans are bad people at this point.

    Like if you identify as a Republican still, you’re just genuinely not a good person.

    I’ve seen enough at this point.