It’s that time again. The following is what you will see on November 5 ballot. This is being published at this time to accommodate voters who choose to vote early, with absentee voting, which were mailed on September 20. The information was taken directly from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections:
For President & Vice President Kamala D. Harris/Tim Walz, Democrat
Donald J. Trump/J.D. Vance, Republican
Chase Oliver/Mike ter Maat, Libertarian
Shiva Ayyadurai/Crystal Ellis, Write-in, Nonpartisan
John Cheng/Wayne Waligorski, Write-in, Nonpartisan
Claudia De La Cruz/Karina Garcia, Write-in, Nonpartisan
Richard Duncan/Mitchell Preston Bupp, Nonpartisan
Cherunda Fox/Harlan Mcvay, Jr., Write-in, Nonpartisan
Brian Klenitz/Christina Johnston, Write-in, Nonpartisan
Peter Sonski/Lauren Onak, Nonpartisan
Jill Stein/Anita Rios, Nonpartisan
For US Senator
Sherrod Brown, Democrat
Bernie Moreno, Republican
Donald Kissick, Libertarian
Stephen Faris, Write-in, Nonpartisan
David Allen Pastorius, Write-in, Nonpartisan
Nathan Russel, Write-in, Nonpartisan
Tariq Shabazz, Write-in, Nonpartisan
Representative to Congress (7th District)
Matt Diemer, Democrat
Max Miller, Republican
Dennis J. Kucinich, Nonpartisan
State Senator (24th District)
Sue Durichko, Democrat
Thomas F. Patton, Republican
State Representative (15th District)
Jessica Sutherland, Democrat
Mike Dovilla, Republican
Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney
Michael C. O’Malley, Democrat
County Wide District
For Justice of the Supreme Court
(Full Term, Commencing 1/1/2025
Michael P. Donnelly, Democrat
Megan E. Shanahan, Republican
County Wide District
For Justice of the Supreme Court
(Full term commencing 1/2/2025)
Melody J. Stewart, Democrat
Joseph T. Deters, Republican
County Wide District
For Justice of the Supreme Court
(Unexpired term commencing 12/31/26)
Lisa Forbes, Democrat
Daniel R. Hawkins, Republican
For Judge of the Court of Appeals (8th District)
(Full term commencing 1/1/2025)
Deena R. Calabrese, Democrat
For Judge of the Court of Appeals (8th District)
(Full term commencing 1/2/2025)
Michelle J. Sheehan
For Judge of the Court of Appeals (8th District)
(Full term commencing 1/3/2025)
Eileen T. Gallagher
For Judge of the Court of Appeals (8th District)
(Full term commencing 2/9/2025)
Mary J. Boyle
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/1/2025)
Kevin J. Kelly, Nonpartisan
Antonio S. Nicholson, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/2/2025)
Ashley Kilbane, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/3/2025)
John J. Spellacy, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
((Full term commencing 1/4/2025)
Timothy McCormick, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/5/2025)
John P. O’Donnell, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/6/2025)
Carl J. Mazzone, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/7/2025)
Lauren C. Moore, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/8/2025)
Tim Hess, Nonpartisan
Mollie Ann Murphy, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/9/2025)
Emily Hagan, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full Term ending 1/10/2025)
Ami Imbrogno, Nonpartisan
Joy Kennedy, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/11/2025)
Daryl T. Dennie, Nonpartisan
Joan Synenberg, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Full term commencing 1/12/2025)
Cassandra Collier-Williams, Nonpartisan
Jason Ralls, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (General Division)
(Unexpired term commencing 12/31/2026)
Timothy W. Clary, Nonpartisan
Kira Krivosh, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Juvenile Division)
(Full term commencing 1/1/2025)
Jennifer L. O’Malley, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Juvenile Division)
(Full term commencing 1/2/2025)
Alison Nelson Floyd, Nonpartisan
For Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Juvenile Division)
(Full term commencing 1/3/2025)
Thomas F. O’Malley, Nonpartisan
Issue 1 COUNTY WIDE DISTRICT
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Proposed by Initiative Petition
To repeal Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of Article XI,
Repeal sections 1, 2 and 3 of Article XIX,
And enact Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of Article XX of the Constitution of the State of Ohio
A majority yes vote is necessary for the amendment to pass.
The proposed amendment would:
1. Repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering approved by nearly three quarters of Ohio electors participating in the statewide elections of 2015 and 2018, and eliminate the longstanding ability of Ohio citizens to hold their representatives accountable for establishing fair state legislative and congressional districts.
2. Establish a new taxpayer funded commission of appointees required to gerrymander the boundaries of state legislative and congressional districts to favor either of the two largest political parties in the state of Ohio, according to a formula based on partisan outcomes as the dominant factor, so that:
3. Each district shall contain single member districts that are geographically contiguous, but state legislative and congressional districts will no longer be required to be compact; and
4. Counties, townships and cities throughout Ohio can be split and divided across multiple districts, and preserving communities of interest will be secondary to the formula that is based on partisan political outcomes.
5. Require that a majority of the partisan commission members belong to the state’s two largest political parties.
6. Prevent a commission member from being removed, except by a vote of their fellow commission members, even for incapacity, willful neglect of duty or gross misconduct.
7. Prohibit any citizen from filing a lawsuit challenging a redistricting plan in any court, except if the lawsuit challenges the proportionality standard applied by the commission, and then only before the Ohio Supreme Court.
8. Create the following process for appointing commission members: Four partisan appointees on the Ohio Ballot Board will choose a panel of 4 partisan retired judges (2 affiliated with the first major political party and 2 affiliated with the second major political party). Provide that the 4 legislative appointees of the Ohio Ballot Board would be responsible for appointing the panel members as follows: the Ballot Board legislative appointees affiliated with the same major political party would select 8 applicants and present those to the Ballot Board legislative appointees affiliated with the other major political party, who would then select 2 persons from the 8 for appointment to the panel, resulting in 4 panel appointees. The panel would then hire a private professional search firm to help them choose 6 of the 15 individuals on the commission. The panel will choose those 6 individuals by initially creating a pool of 90 individuals (30 from the first major political party, 30 from the second major political party, and 30 from neither the first nor second major political parties). The panel of 4 partisan retired judges will create a portal for public comment on the applicants and will conduct and publicly broadcast interviews with each applicant in the pool. The panel will then narrow the pool of 90 individuals down to 45 (15 from the first major political party; 15 from the second major political party; and 15 from neither the first nor second major political parties). Randomly, by draw, the 4 partisan retired judges will then blindly select 6 names out of the pool of 45 to be members of the commission (2 from the first major political party; 2 from the second major political party; and 2 from neither the first nor second major political parties). The 6 randomly drawn individuals will then review the applications of the remaining 39 individuals not randomly drawn and select the final 9 individuals to serve with them on the commission, the majority of which shall be from the first and the second major political parties (3 from the first major political party, 3 from the second major political party, and 3 from neither the first nor second major political parties).
9. Require the affirmative votes of 9 of 15 members of the appointed commission to create legislative and congressional districts. If the commission is not able to determine a plan by September 19, 2025, or July 15 of every year ending in one, the following impasse procedure will be used: for any plan at an impasse, each commissioner shall have 3 days to submit no more than one proposed redistricting plan to be subject to a commission vote through a ranked choice selection process, with the goal of having a majority of the commission members rank one of those plans first. If a majority cannot be obtained, the plan with the highest number of points in the ranked choice process is eliminated, and the process is repeated until a plan receives a majority of first place rankings. If the ranked choice process ends in a tie for the highest point total, the tie shall be broken through a random process.
10. Limit the right of Ohio citizens to freely express their opinions to members of the commission or to commission staff regarding the redistricting process or proposed redistricting plans.
11. Require the commission to immediately create new legislative and congressional districts in 2025 to replace the most recent districts adopted by the citizens of Ohio through their elected representatives.
12. Impose new taxpayer funded costs on the State of Ohio to pay the commission members, the commission staff and appointed special masters, professionals, and private consultants that the commission is required to hire; and an unlimited amount for legal expenses incurred by the commission in any related litigation. approved, the amendment will be effective 30 days after the election
And for those residents in Broadview Heights:
Issue 8 BROADVIEW HEIGHTS
Proposed Tax Levy
(Renewal)
City of Broadview Heights
A majority affirmative vote is necessary for passage.
A renewal of a tax for the benefit of the City of Broadview Heights for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of salaries of permanent police personnel that the County Fiscal Officer estimates will collect $468,000 annually, at a rate not exceeding 0.7 mill for each $1 of taxable value, which amounts to $20 for each $100,000 of the County Fiscal Officer’s appraised value, for five years, commencing in 2024, first due in calendar year 2025.
The time line for the November 3 election is as follows:
September 20, Absentee ballots to be mailed; October 7, Voter Registration Closes; October 8, Opening of vote by mail, or in person M-F at Board of Elections; October 29, Absentee Ballot application deadline; November 3, Voting In Person at the Board of Elections ends at 5 p.m.; November 4, All Vote-by-Mail/Absentee ballots postmark deadline; November 5, Election Day (6:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.) Also, all absentee ballots returned in person must be received at the Board of Elections by 7:30 p.m.
The following is a listing of North Royalton polling places:
Ward 1 – Royalview Elementary School, Ridge Road
Ward 2 – North Royalton Library, Wallings Road
Ward 3 – Royalview Elementary School, Ridge Road
Ward 4 – North Royalton Christian Church, Royalton Road
Ward 5 – North Royalton Elementary School, State Road
Ward 6 – North Royalton City Hall, State Road
By GLORIA PLEVA KACIK
Contributing Writer