State Ex Rel. Miller v. Warren County Board of Elections

{¶ 1} This is an expedited election action for writs of prohibition and mandamus to prevent a board of elections and its members from certifying a person’s candidacy for city council in the November 8, 2011 general election. Because the board did not exercise quasi-judicial authority and relators had an adequate remedy by way of timely statutory protest to raise their claim, relators are not entitled to the requested extraordinary relief in prohibition, and we deny the writ. In addition, because relators’ purported mandamus claim is, in essence, a claim for declaratory and prohibitory…