Opinion ID: 6215878
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The election calendar

Text: {¶ 65} In its response to petitioners’ objections, the commission asks us to decide this matter by February 11, 2022, or, alternatively, to stay our decision until 27 SUPREME COURT OF OHIO the 2022 general election has been completed using the revised plan. The commission notes that the deadline for partisan candidates to file their candidacies for General Assembly offices was February 2 (see R.C. 3515.05 (candidate petitions are due 90 days before the primary election)) and that other deadlines related to the May 3 primary election are quickly approaching. {¶ 66} The General Assembly established the date of the primary election, see R.C. 3501.01(E)(1), and it has the authority to ease the pressure that the commission’s failure to adopt a constitutional redistricting plan has placed on the secretary of state and on county boards of elections by moving the primary election, should that action become necessary.