The Ohio Secretary of State’s decisions to place the Summit County Board of Elections under administrative oversight and to reject the reappointment of Summit County Republican Party Chair Bryan Williams to the board aren’t the first time the Akron-area elections board has come under scrutiny.
Ohio would receive more than $11 billion from President Joe Biden s COVID relief package, but Gov. Mike DeWine doesn t like the amount – despite his earlier pleas for more federal aid.
DeWine was among 22 governors – all but one Republican – signing onto a joint statement protesting the total because it is based on a state s unemployment, not population. Bad policy because it disproportionately funds states that mismanaged the pandemic & due to unemployment fraud that # is a unreliable, tweeted DeWine s lieutenant governor, Jon Husted.
If the figure were calculated upon population instead, Ohio would receive an additional $834 million, per numbers provided by Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri, the top Republican on the House Budget Committee.
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If the Old Dominion State, which The Associated Press reported has executed more people in its history than any other state, can do it, then so can Ohio.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, is expected to sign the repeal, which the state legislature approved Monday, just days after a bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers announced a push to do the same in the Buckeye State.
Once again leading the charge is state Sen. Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood.
“It’s time for the state of Ohio to take the compassionate, pragmatic and prudent step to abolish the death penalty, which has been found to be expensive, impractical, unjust, inhumane and even erroneous,” Antonio said last week.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has decreed for the May 4 primary, as he did for the Nov. 3 presidential election, that each of Ohio’s 88 counties has to have one ballot drop box for voters and could only have one. In other words, counties with more than 1.2 million residents like Cuyahoga County are allowed the same number of drop boxes as counties with 13,000 like tiny Vinton County .