State ex rel. Brady v. Blackwell

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals on remand from this court’s granting of a writ of prohibition ordering that a candidate’s name remain on the November 7 election ballot. Because the secretary of state failed to submit appropriate evidence of a proper delegation of authority to his assistant secretary of state to break a tie vote on protests challenging the candidacy, we affirm the judgment.

{¶ 2} Michael J. O’Shea won the May 2006 Democratic primary election for the office of state representative for the 16th Ohio House District. After…