Ohio Supreme Court keeps GOP nominee on ballot without ruling on closed-door meeting
Attorneys for the voter who brought the case say the decision denied Ohioans an answer about transparency in the election process.

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Democrats say Stidham voted for himself in a closed 4-2 committee meeting, a dispute LaRose's office was collecting final arguments on the same day as his fundraiser.

Kraus faces an Aug. 24 filing deadline that lands before LaRose rules on whether Stidham's own vote for himself taints the GOP nomination.

GOP consultant Jon Paul Morrow says Stidham should have abstained, as LaRose weighs a deadlocked county board tie by an Aug. 28 deadline.

Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican running for auditor on the same ballot, must now break the tie by Aug. 28 under state law.

Stidham was one of six committee members entitled to vote on his own nomination, and Huffman and Reineke had already been working to secure it for him.

Erie GOP chair Caleb Stidham is applying for the seat he'll help decide, while Statehouse leaders Huffman and Reineke quietly back him, a source tells TiffinOhio.net.
