Ohio transgender candidate disqualified for only including legal name, not former name, on petitions - Ohio Capital Journal
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A transgender candidate for the Ohio House has been disqualified because she only circulated petitions with her legal name, instead of her former name — and it has put multiple other LGBTQ+ candidates in flux.

Ohio actually has a law that says if you legally change your name within the last 5 years, it has to be on the petition. In the article it mentions that there is no place for a previous name (dead name in this instance) on the petition, and the Secretary of State’s candidate guide doesn’t mention this requirement at all.

Apparently other trans candidates had their petitions accepted with no problem.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
    104·
    6 months ago

    Thank God they’ve prevented her running. Imagine if she’d won!

    It would have caused rampant inflation, fundamentally undermined democracy, accelerated the timeline of the climate apocalypse, increased school shootings, made health insurance prohibitively expensive, made the US have a poorly performing healthcare system despite outspending other developed countries up to 4 times, caused rampant immigration, and cost tens of thousands of jobs.

    Glad Ohio has it’s priorities in order!

    • BurningRiver@beehaw.org
      41·
      6 months ago

      You forgot “gerrymandered the fuck out of this shithole state” but you’re spot on with regards to the rest.

    • derphurr@lemmy.world
      335·
      6 months ago

      Anyone can run, they just need to include both names if you legally changed name in last 5 years. It’s probably past the deadline for petitions like primary though.