State Ex Rel. Taxpayers for Westerville Schools v. Franklin County Board of Elections

{¶ 1} This is an expedited election case in which relators request a writ of mandamus to compel respondent Franklin County Board of Elections to submit a levy-decrease question to the electorate at the November 6, 2012 general election. Because relators, Taxpayers for Westerville Schools and the committee members representing the petitioners supporting the issue, have not established their entitlement to the requested extraordinary relief in mandamus where the voter-approved levy did not increase the rate of the preexisting voter-approved levies, we deny the writ.

Facts

{¶ 2} In 1972,…