An Ohio elections board tied in a party-line vote on whether a challenge to Rep. Emilia Sykes’s (D-Ohio) voter registration requirements is valid—sending the matter now to the state’s secretary of state.
The vote followed a complaint filed with the Summit County Board of Elections in September by Republican activist Thomas Zawistowski.
Sykes, who faces GOP nominee Kevin Coughlin in a tight Nov. 5 election, described the allegation as “a deeply offensive lie.”
In the complaint, Zawistowski alleged that Sykes’s voter registration is for Akron, Ohio, in Summit County, but that she lives in Columbus, Ohio, in Franklin County. “Ohio law requires voter registration in the county of one’s primary residence,” Zawistowski said in the complaint….