State ex rel. Duncan v. Portage County Board of Elections

{¶ 1} This is an expedited election action for a writ of mandamus to compel a board of elections and its members to place a candidate’s name on the November 6, 2007 election ballot for a city council seat. Because the board neither abused its discretion nor clearly disregarded applicable law by upholding a protest to the relator’s candidacy, we deny the writ.

{¶ 2} Relator, Richard A. Duncan, circulated a petition to be a candidate for an at-large seat on the Aurora City Council. In the petition that he filed with respondent Portage County Board of Elections, Duncan listed an address in Aurora…