Republican LaRose claims victory over Blackwell in Ohio Auditor race
LaRose leads by about 72,000 votes with 102,148 provisional ballots still uncounted, and called the win bittersweet after other Republican losses.

Type at least 2 characters to search.
Attorneys for the voter who brought the case say the decision denied Ohioans an answer about transparency in the election process.

Sen. Kent Smith questions whether LaRose, who has endorsed Ramaswamy, is letting the campaign skate after it logged nearly $500,000 in obscured credit card spending.

Jack Windsor's ex-wife accused him of threats, confinement and violence. Windsor later agreed to a domestic violence civil protection order. On Friday, he was onstage interviewing Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy.

Stidham denies the event was a GOP fundraiser even as LaRose confirms attending it the day before certifying him in a 2-2 tiebreaker.

LaRose is appealing the ruling and asked the judge to let the requirements stand while the case continues, citing a Franklin County noncitizen voting case as justification.

LaRose certified Stidham the same day Kraus's debate challenge went public, and Kraus now faces an Aug. 24 deadline to qualify his write-in bid.

LaRose ruled eight days before his deadline, a day before both sides' agreed filing date, and hours after headlining a GOP fundraiser in Stidham's home county.

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.

LaRose will face Maple Heights Mayor Annette Blackwell, who helped pull her city out of fiscal emergency by working closely with the auditor's office.

Allies of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative are launching a social media ad campaign portraying the FBI investigation as an attempt at voter suppression that they say will backfire on Republicans this fall.

LaRose sent the full voter file with driver's license and partial Social Security numbers while courts rejected the DOJ's demand elsewhere.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has provided an announcement on election integrity “exclusively” to anti-abortion Ohio Right to Life,…
