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In response to
"I know it's a state by state thing. Are there any states where Biden is actually already on the ballot? -- nm"
by
Dano
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I think the only state where there was a potential problem was Ohio, and that's been fixed.
Posted by
mara (aka mara)
Jul 22 '24, 08:08
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"With one potential caveat, no state currently requires major parties to certify their presidential ticket any earlier than Aug. 21. Biden is not filed to appear on the ballot in any state at the moment, because he has not yet been formally nominated.
The one complication arises in Ohio, which previously had an unusually early deadline of Aug. 7. At the insistence of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, the state Legislature passed a law to accommodate this year’s later Democratic National Convention, scheduled to begin on Aug. 19. Ohio’s new law sets the deadline as Sept. 1. However, the Democratic National Committee remains skittish, noting the contradiction that Ohio’s new law does not actually come into effect until Sept. 1. For this reason, the party had planned to conduct a virtual roll call of convention delegates to formalize the nomination sometime prior to Aug. 7."
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