With the 2012 presidential election less than 200 days away, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted used the Delaware County Board of Elections to kick off a state-wide drive to recruit poll workers and highlight changes in election procedure.
Is there a culture of corruption among elected officials in Republican-dominated Delaware County? That depends on who you ask.
MASON, Ohio (AP) — Republican officials in southern Ohio say GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum will be at two county party dinners this Friday.
CLEVELAND — An Ohio congressman facing a primary fight against a fellow Democrat is lobbying for an embattled GOP redistricting plan, asking voters to call state lawmakers on his behalf. One Democrat targeted by the robo-calls, state Rep. Timothy DeGeeter of Parma, said Wednesday that he received such a call at his home and fewer than a dozen phone calls from residents who contacted him in response to U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s overture.
Catching trout out of Delaware’s Blue Limestone Park will be much more difficult this fall.
TOLEDO — Ohio will mail absentee ballot request forms to voters in all counties ahead of the 2012 presidential election, settling a dispute between the state’s top election official and the leader of the state’s largest county. As part of the agreement announced Friday, Cuyahoga County officials agreed not to send out unsolicited mailings for absentee ballots for this year’s general election. Cuyahoga County officials in Cleveland had threatened to defy Secretary of State Jon Husted’s order barring county elections boards from mailing the unsolicited applications. The county’s council earlier in the week authorized mailings to all registered voters.
COLUMBUS — The state has confirmed this year’s first two human cases of West Nile virus in Ohio, amid a sharp increase in mosquitoes found carrying West Nile. The Ohio Department of Health said Tuesday that a 19-year-old woman has been hospitalized in Cuyahoga County with meningitis related to the potentially dangerous virus. Officials also said a 14-year-old boy in northwest Ohio’s Putnam County has been confirmed with a West Nile fever.