Ohio Official Blames Dems for Biden Possibly Not Appearing on the State’s Ballot

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) does not want the blame if President Joe Biden is not on the state’s ballot in the general election.

In a column published by The Wall Street Journal, LaRose said, “The Democratic Party’s antics after its failure to get 👤Joe Biden on the ballot in Ohio are both entertaining and hypocritical. Since 2020 the political left has decried perceived attempts to manipulate laws governing elections as threats to democracy.”

“If you dared to question the electoral process—or worse, hired a lawyer to challenge it—you’d be politically persecuted as a traitor. You might even flip through talking heads on news channels declaring you constitutionally ineligible to appear on a ballot ever again,” he added.

However, LaRose claimed that was “yesterday’s script” and sarcastically said he is “today’s threat to democracy” for refusing to “bend the rules to benefit a candidate.”

“Unfortunately, state and national Democrats have given me no viable legal alternative. Here’s the issue: Ohio has a statutory deadline by which political parties that choose their presidential and vice-presidential candidates at a nominating convention have to certify those choices to my office before the names can appear on the statewide ballot,” LaRose explained. “The problem is that the Democratic National Committee scheduled its nominating convention to take place after Ohio’s statutory ballot access deadline. This has happened at least twice before in Ohio, for the presidential races in 2012 and 2020. In both instances the state Legislature passed a temporary extension.”

Current Ohio law requires