They Kicked A Trans Woman Off The Ballot.

Now there is a question can the Democrats run a candidate for the election in the fall?

Transgender woman running for Ohio House disqualified for not disclosing deadname
The Hill
By Brooke Migdon
January 4, 2024

A transgender woman running for an Ohio House seat has been disqualified for failing to disclose her former name on petitions circulated to voters, in violation of a seldom-enforced state law.

Local election officials informed Vanessa Joy, who hoped to run as a Democrat for Ohio House District 50, that she was not eligible to do so, despite having collected the signatures necessary to run.

Officials said Joy violated a little-known Ohio law requiring candidates for public office to list any name changes over the previous five years on their signature petitions. The law, passed in 1995, has several exceptions, including for candidates who change their names after they are married.

Joy, who has legally changed her name and her birth certificate, told News 5 Cleveland and the Ohio Capital Journal on Wednesday she had not been aware of the law before being removed from the ballot. Ohio’s 2024 candidate requirement guide makes no mention of it.

UPI wrote that...

"It would be fair for the candidate to disclose their identity, including prior names, so that the people and their representatives in the state government would be able to vet that person and know exactly who they are," Case Western Reserve University elections law professor Atiba Ellis said.

As much I hate to say it I would have agreed to exclude her except for this…

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported,

Joy said she didn't know she had to include her former name. State law requires anyone who's changed names during the past five years — for almost any reason — to include his or her former name on petitions.

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With Joy out of the 50th House race, Republican Matthew Kishman stands to win in the fall, unless a write-in candidate enters the fray. The 50th District incumbent, Reggie Stoltzfus, R-Paris Township, opted to run for Congress.

It went on to report that,

"Something that is that important should have been on the instructions," she said. "It should have been on the petition."

Not only is there nowhere to put it on the petition, but it isn’t included in the secretary of state’s 2024 candidate guide. It hasn't been on any candidate guides in recent years.

News 5 reached out to the office with numerous clarifying questions, like why the name change isn't included in the 33-page guide, but did not hear back.

I agree it should be stated on the petition form but there is nothing about it, you can read the form here.

Have you noticed how people say let the voters decide for Trump but now it is throw her off the ballot!

Can you say hypocrites?