Voting rights advocates are raising concerns about Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose's involvement in the ballot issue he is supporting ahead of the election he is overseeing.
LaRose has announced his U.S. Senate campaign bid, another task on his already-busy plate.
LaRose has been out for months campaigning for Issue 1, the proposal he created that would make it more difficult to amend the Ohio Constitution. Turcer acknowledged that politicians are allowed to speak, but says this raises questions about the secretary's ethics."If I'm his lawyer, I would argue that there's no explicit rule against it," Case Western Reserve University elections law professor Atiba Ellis said.
"Just because there might be decades-old precedent for a secretary of state to do this doesn't necessarily make it right or wipe [it] away in the appearance of impropriety," Ellis said. RELATED STORY: LaRose denied that raising the threshold for a constitutional amendment to pass was solely about abortion, and rather many so-called"leftist" issues like raising the minimum wage. But in May, the secretary told supporters this August election was"100%" about abortion.
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