Ohio governor calls special legislative session to include Biden on election ballot

Mike DeWine ordered emergency session to fix scheduling issues preventing Biden's name from being placed on November ballot

Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, has called an emergency legislative session to put Joe Biden's name on the presidential ballot after what he called an absurd" threat from the state's top election officer to remove the president for missing its deadline.

For weeks, Ohio's secretary of state, Frank LaRose, has been at loggerheads with the Democrats over how to put Biden and his vice-president, Kamala Harris, on the ballot given that their official nomination comes after the expiry of the state's deadline of 90 days before the November election.