Ohio
How Ohio stacks the system against independent and minor-party candidates: Mark R. Brown
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State (Frank LaRose) final week eliminated Terpsehore Maras, a Donald Trump supporter working as an impartial candidate, from the Secretary of State poll. As a result of Maras threatened to attract Trump supporters from LaRose’s re-election bid, LaRose’s motion comes as no shock.
LaRose used Ohio’s voter “protest” regulation, which permits voters to protest candidates, to do his soiled work. Maras wanted 5,000 signatures, and had collected a minimum of 5,010, based on native election boards. She was accordingly licensed to the poll final month.
Ohio’s GOP then protested her candidacy, claiming by way of its legal professionals from Bricker & Eckler that dozens of her signatures needs to be dominated invalid. As a result of Ohio regulation requires strict compliance with signature-collection guidelines, discovering a dozen to throw out will not be laborious. Particularly with a sympathetic listening to officer, who in Maras’ case, occurred to be a retired Republican Supreme Courtroom justice. Any small mistake can suffice. Utilizing a county moderately than a metropolis to determine one’s residence, for instance, is a typical purpose to throw out a signature. So is offering an incorrect date, or utilizing a brand new or differing handle from what’s on file with elections officers. Signatures that match file copies so completely they’d be accepted by any financial institution might be thrown out for almost any purpose by the listening to officer. Ask Maras. She is aware of.
Worse but, Ohio’s protest system is biased in opposition to minor candidates in an much more elementary manner. Main-party protesters are allowed to contest every beforehand validated signature, however minor candidates are afforded no alternative to show that beforehand invalidated signatures are official. Maras’ try and submit proof that two or three dozen of her supporters’ signatures had been incorrectly rejected by native election boards was dismissed out of hand by the listening to officer (with LaRose’s blessing). A lot for neutral justice.
Maybe Maras can take solace in the truth that she will not be alone. Ohio’s biased protest course of has produced a lot of minor occasion victims over the previous couple of years. Ralph Nader in 2004 was efficiently protested by Ohio Democrats utilizing legal professionals from the Washington, D.C., regulation agency of Kirkland & Ellis together with dozens of native operatives. Democrats fanned out throughout Ohio to threaten voters who signed Nader’s presidential petition, and made spurious authorized arguments that had been later dominated unconstitutional by a federal courtroom.
Ohio’s GOP did the identical factor in 2014 to Libertarian candidates for governor (Charlie Earl) and legal professional normal (Steve Linnabary) in Ohio. Republicans loved the help of a Republican secretary of state (Jon Husted) and a Republican listening to officer to take away the Libertarians. They even went as far as to dupe a Libertarian into fronting their protest and mendacity concerning the GOP’s involvement. It turned out that, unbeknown to the duped Libertarian, the GOP provided his legal professionals and paid them near $600,000 for his or her efforts. Subsequent sanctions imposed by a federal courtroom on the legal professionals for his or her antics was little solace to the Libertarian Get together, which had misplaced its top-of-the-ticket candidates.
Mark R. Brown is the Newton D. Baker/Baker & Hostetler Chair at Capital College Regulation Faculty
No matter one thinks of Maras, her exclusion from Ohio’s poll reeks of political gamesmanship. Native election boards dominated that she had collected sufficient signatures. Even when some had been false-positives, that’s to be anticipated with hundreds of signatures. False-negatives, that means official signatures which are incorrectly dominated invalid, are additionally to be anticipated. If there may be to be a re-evaluation, as Ohio insists, a candidate should be allowed to show that signatures had been wrongly invalidated. Denying a candidate that chance is inconsistent with frequent notions of due course of.
The time has come to desert Ohio’s antiquated protest system. It’s inherently biased in opposition to minor candidates. It permits bullies to throw huge assets at underdogs. It perpetuates Ohio’s persevering with political duopoly. It denies candidates due course of. Maras’ exclusion is one other unlucky instance.
Mark R. Brown is the Newton D. Baker/Baker & Hostetler Chair at Capital College Regulation Faculty. He has taught constitutional regulation for 35 years. He represented Ralph Nader within the 2004 Ohio election case and likewise represented the Libertarian Get together members of their 2014 case.
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Ohio State will clash with the No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the CFP National Championship on Monday, January 20. It’s the first ever National Championship under the new, expanded CFP format, and it takes place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ohio State is favored by 9 1/2 points over Notre Dame in the second-largest point spread in the 10-year history of the playoff. The Buckeyes have won their three playoff games by 14 points or more. Notre Dame beat Penn State 27-24 in the semifinals on a field goal in the waning seconds.
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Three power-play goals and the goaltending of Liam Souliere helped the No. 3 Gophers men’s hockey team rebound with a 6-1 victory over No. 11 Ohio State on Saturday at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
“It just was not a good look to us last night,” coach Bob Motzko said. “Tonight, absolutely the other way around from the first shift. All four lines, all the defensemen, Liam was great in net, and give our guys credit, we responded. I hope it’s a lesson for us, and I hope that’s a game to get us going now.”
The Gophers (18-4-2, 9-2-1 Big Ten) scored three times in the first eight minutes.
A penalty on the Buckeyes for too many players on the ice put the Gophers on the power play just 86 seconds into the game. Mike Koster quickly converted the opportunity to open the scoring with 17:18 left in the first period.
A little over five minutes later, Mason Nevers and Connor Kurth scored 15 seconds apart to give the Gophers a 3-0 lead with 12 minutes left in the first period.
Less than two minutes into the second period, the Gophers went on the power play again, and Koster again converted to make it 4-0.
Jimmy Snuggerud made it 5-0 with a power-play goal with 6:05 remaining in the second period.
The Texas Longhorns fell just short of advancing to their first CFP National Championship game for the second year in a row, losing 28-14 to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. And while the final score may not indicate, the Longhorns were a yard away from potentially sending the game to overtime late in the fourth quarter.
After back-to-back defensive pass interference calls on what was shaping up to be a 75-yard drive, all Texas needed was a yard to punch it into the endzone and tie the game at 21 with under 4 minutes remaining in regulation.
However, after the first-and-goal run up the middle for freshman running back Jerrick Gibson was held for no gain, the controversial halfback toss play call was made. With Quintrevion Wisner lined up to his left, Quinn Ewers was in the shotgun as he tossed it to Wisner, on the first of two disastrous plays that doomed the Longhorns’ national championship hopes.
“That’s one of those plays, if you block it all right, you get into the end zone,” Steve Sarkisian said of his play-call. “We didn’t, and we lost quite a bit of yardage.”
So what went wrong on the toss play? Well, as always the devil is in the details in football. During his post-game interview, starting left tackle Kelvin Banks explained exactly what went wrong for the Longhorns on the ill-fated toss play. He was one of a few Texas players that was asked about the sequence after the game.
“I saw the boundary safety to come down [Latham Ransom], and I thought it was gonna be a big hole behind me, because that’s kind of how the play [was] designed to go,” Banks said. “I’m supposed to kick him out. Trey hits the hole behind me, and then while I’m kicking him out, I just I hear screaming, y’all, so I look, I’m turning my left, and then Downs is making the play.”
So on the surface, the toss seems to indicate that the play was supposed to see the Longhorns capture the edge and run wide to the goal-line. Banks revealed that is not the case. Instead, as shown in the video above, the hole that is vacated by Banks pulling is supposed to be where Wisner is designed to cut it back and score.
However, that is where the heads-up play is made by Buckeyes safety Caleb Downs, who shoots the gap left open by Banks, forcing Wisner to continue running wide, where he then is corralled for a seven-yard loss by Ransom.
If Downs is fooled by Banks pulling and runs with him instead of shooting the gap, then this play may be remembered entirely differently. But as Sarkisian said post-game, Ohio State’s defense made the play, while Texas didn’t, which unfortunately for the Longhorns ended up costing them the game.
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