Ohio House passes Biden ballot fix bill despite DNC remedy | Isabella Murray/ABC
Ohio’s state House passed two bills on Thursday — one of which ensures President Joe Biden appears on the state’s general election ballot in November despite the Democratic National Committee’s announcement earlier this week that they would remedy the issue on its own. The ballot bill delivers a temporary extension to the state’s current ballot certification deadline of Aug. 7. Democrats were set to nominate Biden at the party’s convention, which starts Aug. 19 — meaning Biden wouldn’t be eligible to make it on the Ohio ballot given the earlier August deadline. More than 30 Republicans joined Democrats in passing that bill, which is now superfluous after the national party announced they’d virtually nominate the president ahead of Ohio’s certification cutoff. Read Article