{"id":15035,"date":"2024-05-14T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15035"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:57:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:57:13","slug":"could-ohio-republicans-really-keep-biden-off-the-ballot-bradcast-5142024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=15035","title":{"rendered":"Could Ohio Republicans REALLY Keep Biden Off the Ballot?!: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/14\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Biden-OhioFlag_051424.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We&#8217;re covering 2024 election news in at least four different states on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> &#8212; track conditions, not horse race &#8212; and only one of those stories is particularly good news as GOP dirty tricks and voter suppression seem to be getting an early start this year. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>Among our main stories today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voters in <b>Maryland<\/b>, <b>Nebraska<\/b> and <b>West Virginia<\/b> headed to primary polls on Tuesday, with critical U.S. Senate and other races <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/14\/us\/politics\/primaries-maryland-west-virginia-nebraska.html\">on the ballot<\/a>. Noteworthy results and\/or problem reports on tomorrow&#8217;s program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We first began reporting on this story early <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14997\">last month<\/a>, when it seemed utterly ridiculous to even contemplate. It still does, frankly. Nonetheless, <b>Ohio<\/b>&#8216;s wildly dysfunctional, partisan-gerrymandered Republican state legislature missed last week&#8217;s deadline for a legislative fix to allow <b>Joe Biden<\/b> on the Buckeye State ballot this year.  Ohio has a state law that requires Presidential candidates be officially certified by their party 90 days before the general election to be included on the state ballot. But the Dems&#8217; convention this year is just 74 days before the election. In past years &#8212; for example, for Donald Trump in 2020 &#8212; lawmakers simply changed the deadline to cure the problem as needed when conventions are held later in the Summer. This year, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2024\/05\/14\/with-unending-petulance-gerrymandered-ohio-republicans-decline-simple-biden-ballot-solution\/\">petulant state Republicans<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2024-biden-ballot-ohio-0bef3376ee6abbad9cb324e725a1e3a2\">demanding a pound of flesh<\/a> from Democrats to make any such changes. And now, with last week&#8217;s deadline past, its going to be even <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4658029-joe-biden-why-not-on-november-ohio-ballot-yet\/\">more difficult<\/a> to do so. Tune in for the full &#8212; and still ridiculous &#8212; skinny. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of ridiculous, a rightwing activist in the state of <b>Washington<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/bob-ferguson-to-bob-fergusons-withdraw-or-face-possible-charges\/\">placed two Democratic candidates for Governor<\/a> named <b>Bob Ferguson<\/b> on the ballot last Friday, just hours before the state&#8217;s August 6th primary deadline. The state&#8217;s longtime Democratic Attorney General, and front-runner to win the Governorship this year, is also named Bob Ferguson. And so the GOP&#8217;s dirty tricks chaos for 2024 officially begins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If they can&#8217;t keep Democratic candidates off the ballot for no good reason, or add several candidates with the same name to the ballot to wreak confusion, Republicans still remember how to do it with good old fashioned voter suppression laws, like the newest one <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/georgia-kemp-voting-challenges-changes-aa1fd9b62c7bcdd430c24dc439f8a728\">signed last week<\/a> by <b>Georgia<\/b>&#8216;s Republican Governor <b>Brian Kemp<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, Democrats are still in court fighting back Republican voter suppression from years ago. On Monday, the newly liberal majority on the <b>Wisconsin<\/b> Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wisconsin-supreme-court-justices-reconsider-ban-on-ballot-drop-boxes\/\">heard oral argument<\/a> to reverse a ridiculous ruling by the high court&#8217;s previous rightwing majority that bans the use of secure absentee ballot drop-boxes. That, even as they&#8217;ve been used for years without incident or fraud in the Badger State (or anywhere else, for that matter.) The hearing was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/05\/13\/wisconsin-supreme-court-drop-boxes\/\">encouraging<\/a>, as even the defendants &#8212; the bipartisan <b>Wisconsin Elections Commission<\/b> &#8212; agree there is nothing in state law that actually bans their use. &#8220;The Commission fully agrees that drop boxes are permitted under Wisconsin statutes,&#8221; said the Asst. AG representing them at the hearing. But it sure was amusing to hear Republicans argue in favor of <i>stare decisis<\/i> (respect for legal precedent and settled law) to keep the 2022 ruling in place from the rightwing partisan court just two years ago. Especially when one of the court&#8217;s liberal justices at the hearing cited none other than U.S. Supreme Court Justice <b>Sam Alito<\/b>&#8216;s majority opinion in <i>Dobbs<\/i> that overturned 50 years of <i>Roe v. Wade<\/i> legal precedent. Using Alito&#8217;s precise language from the SCOTUS ruling, the WI Justice asked what Republican plaintiffs thought the court should do if they found the previous ruling to be &#8220;egregiously wrong&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15034\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as wildfire season explodes in <b>Canada<\/b>; the world records a record-breaking rise in CO2 levels; and <b>Michigan<\/b> moves to sue Big Oil for ever-worsening climate damages&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-BidenOHBallot-DirtyTricksWAGuv-VoteSuppressionLawGA-DropBoxWI_051424.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr style=\"background: blue; color:white;\">\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>MONTHLY BRAD BLOG SUBSCRIPTION<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>ONE-TIME DONATION<\/b><\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:-3em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"9PMSTMCJK9B3E\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Choose monthly amount...\">Choose monthly amount&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"$10\">$10 : $10.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$20\">$20 : $20.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$50\">$50 : $50.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$100\">$100 : $100.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><\/select> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_subscribe_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"K5A5LX7J6WTHQ\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"footnote\">(Snail mail support to <b>&#8220;Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/b>&#8221; always welcome too!)<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re covering 2024 election news in at least four different states on today&#8217;s BradCast &#8212; track conditions, not horse race &#8212; and only one of those stories is particularly good news as GOP dirty tricks and voter suppression seem to be getting an early start this year. 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