State ex rel. Brady v. Blackwell

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the court of appeals granting a writ of prohibition precluding the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections from removing appellee Jennifer Brady’s name from the November 7 election ballot. Because the procedural posture of this case is such that the secretary of state reasonably believed that he was not required to submit evidence to demonstrate that a tie vote of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on protests challenging the board’s placement of Brady on the ballot was lawfully broken by the assistant secretary of state, we reverse the…