http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/01/16/nbc-news-ohio-candidates-deadname-n2391823
Transgender candidates for various political offices in Ohio are in a spot of trouble. Several of them are facing challenges, if not outright disqualification, for failing to list their 'deadnames' on their paperwork.
NBC News (@NBCNews) ~ Several transgender candidates for state office in Ohio are facing challenges and even outright disqualification for omitting their deadnames from petition paperwork.
http://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trans-candidates-face-challenges-running-office-ohio-omitting-former-n-rcna134190?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&;taid=65a6f55ee3a6540001806cfe
"Deadnames"? No, NBC, you morons ... their actual REAL names. You know ... the ones that correspond with their birth certificates - AND their actual REAL gender.
NBC News laments this development:
Several transgender candidates for state office in Ohio are facing challenges and even outright disqualification for omitting their former names from petition paperwork under a little-known state elections law, confronting a unique dilemma as they vie for office in increasing numbers in the face of anti-LBGTQ legislation.
Three of the four transgender candidates hoping to win Democratic seats in the Republican-dominated Ohio House and Senate have either been challenged or disqualified for not putting their former name — also called a deadname — on circulating petitions to get on the ballot. But state law mandates that candidates list any name changes in the last five years, though it isn’t in the Secretary of State’s 33-page candidate requirement guide.
Well, NBC laments this sensible rule because it is a supporter and promoter of mental illness.
State law mandates listing any name changes in the last five years.
Here's some clarification:
(((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) ~ To be fair, apparently what was snagging them was a requirement that they list any name changes within the last five years. Frankly I think they should have to list every name change they ever had, but allegedly it’s not in some booklet made by the secretary of state. As if people shouldn’t actually read the law. I would be curious what the form looks like though.
The voters need to know who they are, which means they need to know all the names they have gone by in the past.
We'd be curious to see it, too, and this explains a lot. But the law is the law.
And a follow up:
(((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) ~ I looked at the forms and I didn’t see any mentions of prior names.
http://ohiosos.gov/elections/elections-officials/forms-petitions/
That is a screw up by the Secretary of State, then. But it doesn’t negate the candidates’ need to obey the law.
That's the rules.
And we thought no one was above the law.
Blue State Snooze (@BlueSnoozeBlue) ~ Putting a false name on a nominating petition would be grounds for disqualification. What's your point?
Their point is this is somehow unfair.
Because reasons.
Woketards and Democrats ... but, I repeat myself ... are ALWAYS whining about how they should not be required to follow the law and the rules. They should be disqualified for this infantile and dishonest attitude of theirs.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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