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People need to follow the law or change it. While its on the books, it needs to be engaged with in good-faith. A 30-minute free consultation with a lawyer could have cleared all this up
She should push for it being applied to all the other politicians in the Ohio House. Any single one of them that had any form of name change for any reason or took the name of their spouse. They all need to be disqualified and kicked out, if we're going to be enforcing this old ass law.
The law doesn't apply to changes due to marriage.
There probably aren't too many others who have had a name change.
If the reason for this law is to not have someone change their name to hide some negative past from voters, a marriage name change is still just as concealing. Sally Smith to Sally Michaels when there are thousands of Sally's out there is just as much hiding as anything else.
Honestly, it's really not. It's rather trivial to find marriage records to find the original name.
Maybe it's the same for legal name changes, I don't know. I've never searched for it before.
But anytime I've had to find out someone's maiden name, it's been trivial for me to do so.
It is, I've done it. Any form of name change is just as easy to look up as marriage records, since changing your last name in the latter uses the same legal process as the former. Since it's still just a name change.
The first approach should be to make sure the law is applied equally. If it exempts marriage, then there’s a good chance it is being applied “equally”, if there’s no other candidate it applies to
THEN you might argue the law is invalid because it’s discriminatory…. If there’s no other candidate it applies to, then you should have a good case to invalidate the law. You probably won’t help in time for an upcoming though
So we agree? I'm not so naïve to totally discount bad-faith on the part of "the system" but yeah, I disagree that anybody is exempt from revealing publicly who they were on the way to who they are today, both in life and candidacy.