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Home Front: Politix

Transgender Ohio House candidate fails to make ballot for not listing former name

2024-01-05

[BEACONJOURNAL] A transgender woman running for the Ohio House was rejected from the ballot for not listing her former name.

Vanessa Joy was the only Democrat seeking the Ohio House 50th District seat, which forms a U-shape in Stark County and includes Canal Fulton, East Canton, Massillon and Minerva.

Joy had enough valid signatures to qualify. Problem was, Stark County's four-member Board of Elections found a flaw in her petitions because she legally changed her name in 2022 and did not include her former name on the petitions she'd circulated, as required by law.

Joy said she didn't know she had to include her former name. State law requires anyone who's changed names during the past five years — for almost any reason — to include his or her former name on petitions.

"That's annoying ... obviously they got me on that," she said by phone.

Joy said she'll reach out to members of the state's House Democratic Caucus for advice. By law, non-certified candidates have until Friday to appeal the board's decision.

In an interview with statehouse news hound Morgan Trau of ABC 5 in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
, Joy said she would "have had to have my dead name on my petitions."

Channel 5 is The Canton Repository's Cleveland TV partner.

"But in the trans community, our dead names are dead; there's a reason it's dead — that is a dead person who is gone and buried," Joy said.
Nope. It's who you are/were before your mental illness kicked in
With Joy out of the 50th House race, Republican Matthew Kishman stands to win in the fall, unless a write-in candidate enters the fray. The 50th District incumbent, Reggie Stoltzfus, R-Gay Paree Township, opted to run for Congress.

Posted by:Fred

#10 Hold up. Wait a second.

that is a dead person who is gone and buried

If Vinny died last year, isn't a 1 year old ineligible for office?

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-01-05 13:40

#9 "That's annoying ... obviously they got me on that,"

That's some quality GirlFace charade; problems are always somebody else's fault.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-01-05 13:37

#8 But got it's pronouns correct, and that's the important part.

Posted by: ed in texas 2024-01-05 13:24

#7 #^ I thought Bee.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-01-05 12:36

#6 California to provide free sex changes for illegal immigrants

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-01-05 12:28

#5 So it didn't know the law? Either sloppy research or willfully choosing to not follow.

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2024-01-05 12:21

#4 Ah, but when “Vanessa” loses, they can loudly blame it on bigotry, so either way they get what they want.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-05 11:56

#3 ~~Dead name~~ Joy may win an appeal, but I can’t see that blue collar district electing ~~dead name~~ Joy. Maybe Massillon has a Castro District that I don’t know about, but the campaign seems pointless. No Dem wants to run in the district, but a tranny is going to win seems extremely optimistic on ~~dead name~~ Joy’s part.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-01-05 10:10

#2 Clever, hiding the Adam's Apple with that neck goiter

Posted by: Frank G 2024-01-05 09:35

#1 But in the trans community

Um, the petitions were circulated in the entire community, hon. You can pick and choose a lot of things (or think you can) but the law isn't one of them.

Usually.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-01-05 08:02

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