More than 14,500 Ohioans’ voter registrations were canceled within 90 days of the 2024 election without any clear explanation, according to research from a Harvard University computer science professor.

The House budget eliminates a 30-year-old commission intended to enforce campaign finance laws. Gov. Mike DeWine had proposed a slight increase for the Ohio Elections Commission to $1.2 million out of the $61 billion in overall state funds in the budget. But Republicans wanted to try something new.

The Ohio Elections Commission, established three decades ago to investigate complaints of campaign finance violations, is now scrambling to have its funding restored after its entire budget was left out of an Ohio House spending plan for next year.

U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, and other Republican statewide candidates are each lobbying Ohio GOP leaders to award them state party primary endorsements next month.

Nuts and bolts Early voting is available every weekday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm this week and from 7:30 am to at least 7:30 pm next week as well. Voters who want to cast a ballot early will also be able to do so the following weekend, May 3 and 4.

Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming has endorsed fellow pro-Bitcoin politician Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio’s governor.

Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel joined Ohio Politics Explained podcast to discuss his new job, higher education and speculation about his future.

Ohioans voting in the May 6 primary and special election will be deciding whether to pass Issue 2, a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing $2.5 billion in

County coroners warn change could compromise independence in death investigations, but the County Commissioners Association of Ohio says the move would increase regional efficiency.

The Ohio House’s version of the budget would eliminate the independent group charged with enforcing state campaign finance laws.

Local residents voted in favor of ending the ban on yellow margarine. Its sale and manufacture became legal in Ohio on Dec. 8, 1949.

The shadow docket order in Yost v. Brown is here. The case concerns Ohio AG Yost’s repeated refusal to certify a proposed summary of a proposed constitutional amendment. The district court concluded that the ballot initiative proponents’ First Amendment rights