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McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U.S. 334 (1995), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an Ohio statute prohibiting anonymous campaign literature is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects the freedom of speech.
The US Supreme Court precedent on ballot access laws cases has been conflicting. [58] In Williams v. Rhodes (1969) the court struck down Ohio's ballot access laws on First and Fourteenth Amendment grounds. During the 1970s the Supreme Court upheld strict ballot access laws, with a 'compelling State interest' being the "preservation of the ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohioans voting in this November’s general election will be deciding whether to pass Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment to change how the state’s political ...
Oct. 15—OHIO — As Ohioans head to the polls this election season, a topic of discussion is Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment to overhaul the state's redistricting process. Both ...
Issue 1, the Determining Bail Amount Based on Public Safety Amendment, was a successful ballot measure on the November 2022 general election ballot in Ohio.It added language to the Constitution of Ohio to require consideration of public safety in the setting of bail amounts, and transferred responsibility for establishing bail procedures from the Ohio Supreme Court to the Ohio Legislature.
Ohio's Republican leaders then largely ignored the agreed-upon process after the 2020 census, not to mention seven Ohio Supreme Court rulings declaring different maps to be unconstitutional.
But the Constitution does not require that a State allow any particular Presidential candidate to be on its ballot, and so long as the Ohio ballot access laws are rational and allow nonparty candidates reasonable access to the general election ballot, this Court should not interfere with Ohio's exercise of its Art. II, 1, cl. 2, power.
In comparison, former President Donald Trump won Ohio with 53% of the vote in 2020 and Gov. Mike DeWine won reelection with 62% of the vote in 2022. The Ohio Supreme Court, then under O'Connor's ...