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Council debates ballot rotation, nominating-petition signatures and petition limits
Summary
Cleveland Heights council members discussed ballot-name rotation, nominating-petition signature thresholds and removal of a petition-signing limit during a Feb. 22 Committee of the Whole meeting as part of their charter-review work.
Cleveland Heights council members spent a substantial portion of their Feb. 22 charter-review meeting addressing how the city's charter should handle municipal elections, nominating petitions and petition rules.
Council members discussed whether the charter should repeat the state requirement that candidate names be rotated on the ballot, or instead say the name "shall be rotated unless otherwise provided by state law." The discussion noted state law (the Ohio Revised Code) already prescribes rotation in municipal elections; council members…
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