Democrats to nominate Biden virtually to bypass quirk of Ohio law

[EleanorR]

Thank goodness.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-nominate-biden-virtually-bypass-quirk-ohio-law-2024-05-28/

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee will nominate President Joe Biden as the party’s presidential standard-bearer through a “virtual roll call” ahead of its August convention in Chicago, bypassing a detail in Ohio law that had threatened to keep the president off the November ballot in that state.

Ohio law requires all candidates to be legally certified by Aug. 7, but Biden was not scheduled to be officially nominated until after the Democratic National Convention begins on Aug. 19. Tradition dictates that the Democrats' convention follow the Republican one in July, because Democrats hold the White House.

The virtual roll call will be completed before the Ohio deadline, but the Democratic National Committee did not give a specific date.

"Joe Biden will be on the ballot in Ohio and all 50 states, and Ohio Republicans agree,” DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement on Tuesday. “But when the time has come for action, they have failed to act every time, so Democrats will land this plane on our own.”

[elocs]

1. Somebody had their head up their ass in scheduling the convention as late as they did

because this never should have happened at all.

[obamanut2012]

3. It happened last time, with both Parties

And has happened before.

This isn't something unknown or rare.

[W_HAMILTON]

4. Holy shit, we STILL have people blaming Democrats for this?

Good god.

Check convention dates from prior years. This was just Republicans trying to ratfuck the Democratic candidate in any way they can and anyone blaming Democrats for it should be ashamed of themselves.

Also, zero chance Democrats would have let this negatively impact Biden regardless of what Republicans did or did not do, so yet another loss for the "blame Democrats first" crowd. Biden was always going to be on the ballot in Ohio one way or the other, but y'alls' concern was duly noted.

[Cha]

7. Agree.. TY!

[Hekate]

10. Amen

[elocs]

12. Really? So who else is there to blame? Did somebody force Dems to schedule their convention when they did?

Making the excuse that Republicans have done it too is simply childish. This should never happen again.

[TomSlick]

13. Agreed.

The MAGAts are looking for any excuse to abuse the process. This could easily have been avoided.

[Ms. Toad]

16. Both parties have beeen scheduling post-deadline conventions since 2010 (IIRC) when the law passed.

In each instance, the Ohio Legislature has modified the deadline.

The difference this year is that the Republican convention is before the deadline, leaving the Republicans free to play games without impacting their candidate.

So, aside from this year's timing quirk, there was no reason to believe it would be different this year. Ordinarily, I'd agree with you. But given the history of this particular law (which has created headaches and one-off legislative solutions since it was passed) I'll give them a pass. Refusing to grant an exception this year, when exceptions have been routinely granted in the past, is pure politics.

[Cha]

18. Ah the "Blame Game".. gotta "Blame" 'em! It's All THEIR

FAULT!!

[Cha]

8. Stop Dragging on the Dems.

[karynnj]

9. The incumbent party traditionally goes after the other party.

Ohio waived their rule every year since they made it law before 2016. Remember in 2004, the Republicans had theirs in NYC in September to be their on 911. The problem is Ohio.

[edhopper]

11. Rather than rag on the Democrats

shouldn't you praise them for figuring out how to get around the GOP cheaters in Ohio?

[Cha]

19. Boom! Exactly.. TY!

[speak easy]

14. RNC Convention August 24-27, 2020.

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[Torchlight]

17. And there it is, right outta the gate.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. GOOD!

[Cha]

5. Good.. I knew the Dems would come through!!

Thanks You!

[Cha]

6. TY Eleanor!

[0rganism]

15. "quirk"? QUIRK? The Republican legislature chose not to waive the deadline

That's not a quirk, it's a feature.

They tried to get a squeeze play out of it -- RNC convention on one side, Ohio deadline on the other. Naturally, the DNC has to step in to fix the problem at the cost of some gravitas in the upcoming convention, as now that nomination will only be ceremonial, the real one having happened some time before to meet the deadline.

Which I think raises the question of whether there's a second phase to this ... "quirk": is the preliminary nomination really the end of it? Is there a 5th column in a Democratic state delegation that will use this fix as the basis for a disruption at the convention?