According to Ballot Access News, the OH Secretary of State ruled that all parties that were ballot qualified in 2008 remain qualified in 2009. This means that the Socialist Party USA remains a ballot qualified party in Ohio this year, even though Moore/Alexander didn't meet the OH legislature's threshold of 5% of the vote for qualified parties to retain ballot access.

This is something we could have easily gotten re-declared in court this year regardless, since the SP has already met the federal court's default standard for ballot qualification in Ohio and the Ohio legislature has still neglected to pass a constitutional ballot qualification method of its own. This declaration by the Secretary of State, however, alleviates us from having to go to such trouble.

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