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Ohio transgender candidate disqualified for only including legal name, not former name, on petitions (ohiocapitaljournal.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by stinerman@midwest.social to c/ohio@midwest.social

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Ohio actually has a law that says if you legally change your name within the last 5 years, it has to be on the petition. In the article it mentions that there is no place for a previous name (dead name in this instance) on the petition, and the Secretary of State’s candidate guide doesn’t mention this requirement at all.

Apparently other trans candidates had their petitions accepted with no problem.

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[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Thank God they've prevented her running. Imagine if she'd won!

It would have caused rampant inflation, fundamentally undermined democracy, accelerated the timeline of the climate apocalypse, increased school shootings, made health insurance prohibitively expensive, made the US have a poorly performing healthcare system despite outspending other developed countries up to 4 times, caused rampant immigration, and cost tens of thousands of jobs.

Glad Ohio has it's priorities in order!

[–] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

You forgot “gerrymandered the fuck out of this shithole state” but you’re spot on with regards to the rest.