Secretary of State Frank LaRose cast the tie-breaking vote to allow Democrat Te'Airea Powell and Republican Tom Brinkman onto the ballot for Cincinnati City Council, bringing the field to a modern record of 35 candidates.
The four-member Hamilton County Board of Elections last week certified 33 city council candidates for the November ballot, but tied on Powell and Brinkman because their candidate petitions had a missing date on the statement signed by some of the circulators attesting that they gathered the signatures.
LaRose, a Republican, is the tiebreaker. He ruled Monday that Cincinnati’s Charter "requires the petition for members of city council to be substantially in the form prescribed."
And in this case, he wrote in a letter to the board of elections, "The circulators substantially complied with what the forms called for.
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