The Elections Office is given a total of delegates that each party has been issued, then we let the Democrat and Republican Chairmen know that number, and the Chairmen then send us the districts and breakdown of numbers for those offices.
Their party also should let them know that number. These are party offices and dictated by the party.
Mr. Lowry says in his statement that he was provided the number of delegates and accidentally divided them up with the 2024 numbers. This is not an issue that this office has ever had (as you can imagine why), so when Mr. Lowry called our office, I tried to come up with a solution. Although this would result in massive workload for the Elections Office to change the numbers, we would accommodate if we had been directed by law that we could do so.
As I read in the Election Board Meeting, per direction from our bi-partisan Co-Directors from the Election Division:
“If district races are chosen, the party chair must file their descriptions with the County Election Board by noon, December 31, 2025, and indicate the number of delegates to be elected in each district.”
As the Hamilton County Election Board (and others) listened to Mr. Lowry yesterday, he said this was entirely his fault. He spoke that same thing to me on the phone yesterday. I’m not quite sure when he changed his mind – maybe when he began speaking to the media?
This is not an error on the part of Hamilton County Elections, and I will not allow my office to be subject to such criticism. When our office makes a mistake (and we do), we take the blame for it. We will not take the blame for this mistake on the part of Mr. Lowry and the Democrat Party.
It is my hope that the Democrat Party can figure out a way for these 18 delegates to be appointed, as I do not want to see the party not be able to utilize all of their delegate positions.
Click here to read The Reporter’s full story on this matter.
Click here to read Democratic Party Chair Josh Lowry’s statement.
