Ohio election called off by coronavirus 'health emergency' after on-again, off-again day of confusion

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will order polls closed on Tuesday as a 'health emergency'

DeWine announced this change at 10:08 p.m. Monday after a judge ordered polls to remain open. Tuesday, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose will seek a legal remedy to extend voting.

A Franklin County judge had earlier in the day denied a request to delay Ohio's in-person voting. Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard A. Frye said it would be a"terrible precedent" for a judge to step in 12 hours before polls open to rewrite the election code. Former Ohio Department of Aging Director Judith Brachman filed a lawsuit in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to delay in-person voting. Brachman, 81, told the Columbus Dispatch that she wanted to ensure that elderly voters didn’t have to make a choice between their health and voting.

The board adjourned late Monday evening with the plan to hold the election Tuesday morning as previously scheduled. That could change if the Ohio Secretary of State and Attorney General appeal the decision. Kenneth Henning, a representative for the Ohio Secretary of State told the board, the state planned to appeal the decision.

 

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DeWine said on Sunday that he doesn’t have the authority to change the primary election’s date and that only a judge could do that. So now DeWine, formerly Ohio’s Attorney General, is saying that he is willing to break the law that he acknowledged and to defy a judge’s order.

Aah and they say it's not political.

THE GOVERNOR CANNOT ORDER POLLS BE CLOSED IN OHIO. YOU ARE SPREADING MISINFORMATION

The idiot is working overtime to thwart our election! RemoveDeWine

He's in office a little longer

Didn’t like wht judge said hey MikeDeWine !

Dude shouldnt be in office vote him out

ArlanWasHere vote by mail

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