Streetsboro candidate challenged

By Mike sever | staff writer Published:

A Streetsboro City Council candidate's slot on the May ballot is being challenged based on whether he filed city-required paperwork in a timely manner. The Portage County Board of Elections will hold a hearing on the challenge at 8:15 a.m. March 22.

A challenge against Matt Bross, who is running for an at-large seat on City Council, was filed by Carmen Laudato, who said Bross did not complete his elective office criminal history disclosure form in a timely manner.

Streetsboro's charter requires candidates to fill out the form within five days of filing nominating petitions with the county elections board.

Faith Lyon, elections board chief, said the city law director has been asked to attend the hearing to provide an interpretation of the charter requirements.

"It's not statutory [requirement] so it's not really in our purvue. We can't make the decision based on our interpretation," but the board will bring in the facts of the charter requirements and make its decision based on that, Lyon said.

The elections board will hold two other hearings on Friday over ballots cast in the November general election by Robert Teach and Thomas Regovich, voters who allegedly no longer lived in the districts where they voted.

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  • MitchellReed

    If Ms. Laudato reported this on the advice of the Portage Republican Committee, something is definitely askew and suspect within their organization. According to my research, Mr. Bross is a Portage Co. Republican Central Committee member, if they are attempting to undermine his campaign internally that would not be good for their reputation.

  • Ian_Maserb

    Sounds like yet another artificial barrier used to deny the electorate the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice. I don't see why Streetsboro doesn't just pass a charter amendment list by name who may run for office there. After all, they must take steps to avoid city government from being overthrown by electoral means.

  • MitchellReed

    Mr. Fleming & the Streetsboro voting public, There will not be a May primary election for the Streetsboro Council-At-Large race, it will go straight to the November general election since there are less than seven candidates running. If the 2-to-1 ratio of candidates to seats had occurred per city charter, then a primary would be required. Regards, Mitchell Reed -Reporting The Facts

  • WhizZard

    Oh, I see, it is in May. But even so, doesn't he still have time to put one in? I have the Portage County Sheriff do one on me each year and it only takes 5 minutes. They do theirs with the State Bureau of Investigation. Martin Fleming

  • WhizZard

    Maybe we should do background checks on those who bring up this frivolous stuff to begin with. Did she report this on the advice of the Portage Republican Committee I wonder? Martin Fleming

  • WhizZard

    I mean, as long as he puts one in, does it matter if he did it on time or not? November is a long ways away. It's not like we are voting on it tomorrow. Martin Fleming

  • WhizZard

    Maybe he didn't know that was a requirement until the last minute. Couldn't that be possible? Some people learn how to do this as they go along. I don't think this is really an issue unless they don't pass the background check. Martin Fleming