Mike DeWine Calls Special Session To Get Biden On Ohio Ballot

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine yesterday called a special legislative session to make sure Joe Biden, the president of the United States, will be on the November election ballot in his state. Yes, there's a line even DeWine won't cross. Via the Washington Post:

“This is simply unacceptable,” DeWine said at a news conference. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, on the ballot this fall. Failing to do so is simply not acceptable. This is a ridiculous — this is an absurd — situation.”

[...] Ohio’s Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose, first warned Democrats in early April that Biden was at risk of missing the ballot because the Democratic National Convention, scheduled for Aug. 19-22, falls after the state’s certification deadline of Aug. 7.

A similar issue also came up in Alabama but with little drama as state lawmakers passed a bill to move the deadline later and Gov. Kay Ivey (R) quickly signed it into law.

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