By Richard Winger The Ohio Secretary of State has rejected Martin O’Malley’s petition to be placed on the Democratic presidential primary ballot. See this story. He needed 1,000 signatures and submitted 1,175. He has been told that only 772 signatures are valid.
Ohio voter registration forms do not ask about party affiliation. However, signatures on Ohio primary petitions are not valid if the signer voted in some other party’s primary in the last election. Signatures on O’Malley’s petition would have been invalidated if the signer voted in the Republican, Green, or Libertarian primary in 2014. Also, of course, …read more
Source:: http://ballot-access.org/2015/12/31/martin-omalley-ohio-petition-fails/