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The Summit County GOP is accusing Secretary of State Frank LaRose of spinning “inaccurate and incomplete” facts to “exact political retribution” against its local leader.
In a March 3 letter, LaRose rejected the reappointment of Bryan Williams, who is vice president of the state central committee and chair of the Summit County GOP, to another four years on the Summit County Board of Elections. LaRose gave the party s county executive committee until Friday of last week to give him another name for the open seat.
Local party leaders met Wednesday and voted 66-1 to sue LaRose instead.
The lawsuit, filed Friday, asks the Ohio Supreme Court to compel LaRose to accept Williams nomination by the local party. The Ohio Supreme Court decided Monday to take the case on an expedited basis.
The Ohio Supreme Court will consider whether Summit County Republican Party Chair Bryan Williams will regain his seat on the Summit County Board of Elections after his reappointment was rejected by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose.
The Summit County GOP plans to take the Republican in charge of Ohio elections to court.
The local party s executive committee met Wednesday evening to file a lawsuit against Secretary of State Frank LaRose. Party Chairman Bryan Williams presided over the meeting, which involved voting on what to do since LaRose rejected Williams reappointment to the Summit County Board of Elections.
LaRose rejected Williams, along with others election board nominees across Ohio, and put the Summit County Board of Elections on administrative oversight due to a series of problems uncovered in the 2020 presidential election.
LaRose, who grew up in Copley Township and recently moved from Hudson to Columbus, gave the local party until Friday to send him another name or he would pick one himself. Instead, the local party is sending him a writ of mandamus, asking a judge to compel LaRose to accept Williams reappointment.
The Ohio Secretary of State’s decisions to place the Summit County Board of Elections under administrative oversight and to reject the reappointment of Summit County Republican Party Chair Bryan Williams to the board aren’t the first time the Akron-area elections board has come under scrutiny.