UPDATE: Joe Biden Remains Off The Ballot In Critical State!

An effort by state lawmakers to ensure Joe Biden is on the ballot in Ohio for the 2024 presidential election has stalled.

Ohio was one of three states that warned Biden could be left off the ballot due to the Democrat National Convention taking place after certification deadlines.

The other two states, Alabama and Washington, resolved the complication without a battle.

“Effort to keep Biden on the ballot in Ohio stalls after liberal lawmakers side with Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and kill measure to stop foreign influence of ballot issue campaigns and get Biden on the ballot,” Americans for Public Trust wrote.

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— Americans for Public Trust (@apublictrust) May 10, 2024

Per The New York Times:

Alabama, for example, resolved the issue with little fanfare last week, when the State Legislature overwhelmingly passed a law granting an extension to the deadline accommodating the late date of the Democratic convention, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 19. Election officials in Washington State also signaled that their state would accept a provisional certification of Mr. Biden’s nomination.

Legislation similar to the law adopted in Alabama was proposed in the Republican-dominated General Assembly in Ohio but stalled out ahead of a Thursday deadline given by Frank LaRose, the Republican secretary of state, to change the law. Mr. LaRose has said that the legislature could still resolve the issue with an emergency vote.

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Republicans in the Ohio Senate advanced a bill on Wednesday that would resolve the issue but attached a rider that would ban foreign money in state ballot initiatives, over the objections of Senate Democrats. The House speaker, Jason Stephens, who is fending off a monthslong effort by some Republicans to oust him and needs support from Democratic lawmakers in the minority to stay in power, did not take up the measure, and the legislature adjourned with no solution in place.

Get Joe Biden on the ballot or keep the pipeline of foreign money flowing into the state?

Ohio Democrats can’t decide…https://t.co/VIS99rDK4T

— Caitlin Sutherland (@CaitlinAPT) May 9, 2024

Charles Lutvak, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, remains confident Biden will appear on the ballot in all 50 states.

“Election after election, states across the country have acted in line with the bipartisan consensus and taken the necessary steps to ensure the presidential nominees from both parties will be on the ballot,” Lutvak said, according to The New York Times.

From the Associated Press:

The question of whether Democratic President Joe Biden will appear on Ohio’s fall ballot has become entangled in a partisan legislative fight to keep foreign money out of state ballot campaigns, a year after cash tied to a Swiss billionaire boosted a successful effort to enshrine abortion rights in the solidly red state’s constitution.

On Wednesday, against the backdrop of a festering Republican leadership fight that’s roiled lawmaking since last year, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s proposal to ban foreign money from initiative campaigns became the poison pill that prevented a final solution for adjusting an Aug. 7 ballot deadline that precedes the Democratic National Convention.

Thursday marked the last day legislators could pass the fix with a simple majority, and no sessions were held.

All four Republican and Democratic leaders at the Statehouse still say they’re confident the president will appear on Ohio’s ballot. It’s the how and when that remain a mystery.

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