Ohio - Election officials from all 88 Ohio counties signed a letter sent to senate president, Matt Huffman, saying, even if new congressional maps were approved this week, it still wouldn't give all counties time to run a successful May 3rd election.

Bipartisan election officials around Ohio want the primary moved to the summer. They are saying because there are still not final district maps, important deadlines can't be met.

"The most pressing deadline we have right now is the military and overseas members, and we have a deadline to get them a ballot by March 18th. The deadline to certify these general assembly and congressional candidates is March 14th. It's physically impossible to have a ballot ready by March 18th," says Stephanie Penrose of Trumbull County Board of Elections.

"Columbus needs to recognize that there are deadlines to print ballots and hire people, to rent locations and to budget for these elections," says Penrose. 

"Local Boards of Elections prefer to have to have a regular scheduled election and if that has to happen in June or July, it just makes more sense for us financially and logistically," says Tom McCabe of Mahoning County Board of Elections. 

A suggestion by the senate president last week to split the primary in two was, according to the Ohio Elections Officials Association, found to be too costly and too confusing to voters.

Only the state legislature has the power to move the primary, which they did in 2020 due to Covid.

Now as democrats and republicans continue to battle over redrawing political maps, it appears it could happen again.