State ex rel. Evans v. Blackwell

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment denying writs of prohibition and mandamus. Appellant, Jacob Evans, an Ohio taxpayer and elector, seeks the following: to prevent the Secretary of State of Ohio from exercising quasi-judicial authority by circumventing protest proceedings challenging a statewide initiative petition before these proceedings have been adjudicated in common pleas court and to prevent the Clerks of the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate from maintaining the Secretary of State’s transmittal of the petition on their journals. Evans also seeks to have that…