“Kathleen Clyde has fought her whole career for fair districts and fair elections because she knows that voting is a fundamental freedom, and that is why I am proud to support her,” said Biden, a Democrat and vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president. “She understands that all hard-working Ohioans deserve a quality education, affordable health care, and good-paying, reliable jobs, and that fixing a broken system begins at the ballot box."

The former vice president said that Clyde, who, according to publicly released campaign finance reports, has out raised LaRose, will "modernize voter registration while securing the election process, help Ohio entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground, and bring fair districts and fair elections back to Ohio.”

If she wins, Clyde would replace Secretary of State Jon Husted, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor on Mike DeWine's ticket, DeWine facing Democratic nominee Richard Cordray in his bid for governor, and Husted up against former congresswoman Betty Sutton, Cordray's running mate.

Biden's endorsement comes on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that the State of Ohio can continue to purge Ohio citizens from the voter rolls, a ruling that has widespread impact on voters’ rolls across the nation, and one that has angered Democrats, Civil and women's rights groups and unions across the country, among others.

Republicans in general, led by President Donald Trump, have applauded the ruling, which has a disproportionate effect on college voters who sometimes relocate from location to location, poor people, minorities, women and seniors, and Blacks, among a cadre of others.

The decision in the case Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute was decided by the Supreme Court on June 11, a 5-4 decision where the court ruled that states may remove people off the rolls if they skip a few elections and fail to respond to a notice from election officials.

Hence, the high court ruled that Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted did not violate the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 relative to the case at bar.

Clyde has a slew of endorsements, including from service employees and teachers unions, and other union affiliates, the Cleveland Stonewall Democrats, Planned Parenthood, Naral Pro Choice, and the Ohio Democratic Party.

Key Democrats endorsing Clyde include congressional Democrats of Ohio of congress persons Marcia Fudge, Joyce Beatty, Marcy Kaptur and Tim Ryan, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat.

“As a former secretary of state of Ohio, I’m proud to endorse Kathleen Clyde,” said Brown in announcing his endorsement of Clyde earlier this year. “Kathleen Clyde is a leader who will fight back against extreme gerrymandering, foreign cyber security threats, and illegal voter purging."

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