Alright, it’s settled now. The two voter information posters from Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted – a candidate for re-election – which display his name prominently featured will be posted in Ohio’s polling places. The question is this: Will it make one whit of difference in the race between Republican Husted and Democrat Nina Turner for the secretary of state’s job? Husted leads Turner by a large margin in the independent polling that is out there; and, according to the campaign finance reports that came out Thursday, the Republican incumbent has $2.2 million left to spend while Turner, a state senator from Cleveland, has a paltry $70,000 left. Nonetheless, a lot of Ohio Democrats aren’t very happy about the signs; they believe they are a form of subtle electioneering by a candidate who also happens to be the chief elections officer of the state. One of the signs is a relatively small 11 by 17 inch poster encouraging voting that shows the work of a fifth grade student who won a
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