This article by Lauren Lindstrom appeared in The Toledo Blade on August 27, 2018.
Accusing Lucas County Board of Elections of thwarting democracy, supporters of two petitions excluded from the November ballot by board vote said they plan to sue for their inclusion.
The two petitions — one seeking to keep the Lucas County jail in downtown Toledo and another seeking to establish a Lake Erie bill of rights — were rejected by the board and will not go before Toledo voters in November.
In a tense special meeting Tuesday morning that at times broke into raucous jeers from supporters of the petitions, board members said the initiatives went beyond the scope of what Toledo city law could enforce and unanimously voted against them. MORE…