Comments on: Ohio Lawsuit to Require Party Labels on General Election Ballots for Judicial Races http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/07/29/ohio-lawsuit-to-require-party-labels-on-general-election-ballots-for-judicial-races/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:28:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=5532 By: Demo Rep http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/07/29/ohio-lawsuit-to-require-party-labels-on-general-election-ballots-for-judicial-races/comment-page-1/#comment-800910 Demo Rep Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:54:26 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/?p=14254#comment-800910 Any attacks by the party hacks on entire NON-partisan elections ??? See NE - one house alleged NON-partisan State legislature since about 1934. Any attacks by the party hacks on entire NON-partisan elections ???

See NE – one house alleged NON-partisan State legislature since about 1934.

]]> By: Jim Riley http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/07/29/ohio-lawsuit-to-require-party-labels-on-general-election-ballots-for-judicial-races/comment-page-1/#comment-800892 Jim Riley Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:33:10 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/?p=14254#comment-800892 The Ohio Democratic Party is one of the plaintiffs. They probably got AFSCME to act as the lead plaintiff, so that you didn't have 'Ohio Democratic Party v Brunner'. Ohio is clearly within its right to use non-partisan election of judges (and non-judicial officers if it so chose). So it is really the nomination process that is inconsistent. The law about non-partisan judicial general elections is pretty clear and explicit. Somehow Ohio has managed not to provide non-partisan nomination for judicial offices, even though they do have nomination procedures for other non-partisan offices such as the state board of education, school boards, and some local elections. The Ohio Democratic Party is one of the plaintiffs. They probably got AFSCME to act as the lead plaintiff, so that you didn’t have ‘Ohio Democratic Party v Brunner’.

Ohio is clearly within its right to use non-partisan election of judges (and non-judicial officers if it so chose). So it is really the nomination process that is inconsistent. The law about non-partisan judicial general elections is pretty clear and explicit. Somehow Ohio has managed not to provide non-partisan nomination for judicial offices, even though they do have nomination procedures for other non-partisan offices such as the state board of education, school boards, and some local elections.

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