Former Trotwood Mayor Mary McDonald will be on the ballot for a Montgomery County Commissioner seat.
A tie-breaking vote from Columbus finalized the March primary race after a protest hearing about McDonald earlier this month.
“We’ve known this to be simply a distraction. Something that was just put out to silence the voice of the people,” Mary McDonald, the Republican Montgomery Co. Commissioner Candidate said.
McDonald announced a switch from the Democratic to the Republican party late last year.
News Center 7 covered a protest hearing on Jan. 16 where a lawyer representing the person who filed the protests argued McDonald should not be on the ballot.
The protest claimed the former Trotwood Mayor was not a member of the republican party and did not file her declaration of intent to run as a Republican correctly.
“The court said you cannot resign retroactively. You can’t engage in historical revisionism here,” Donald McTique, the Lawyer for Election protest said.