Secretary of State of Ohio
November 2, 2010 · general election · 3 candidates with a page
The candidates
Listed alphabetically by surname. Ohio rotates the order candidates appear in by precinct, so no order on this page is the order on a ballot.
- Worked in radio broadcasting and as a mass-communication professor
- Served in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 80th district as a Republican, October 1981 to December 1984; later switched to the Libertarian Party
4 of 11 sections researched · 1 source
- Vice president for economic development at the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce before entering full-time politics.
- Bachelor's and master's degrees, University of Dayton; earned All-American honors as a football defensive back there.
- Columbus, Ohio.
11 of 11 sections researched · 167 sources
- Fourth-generation funeral director and owner of the O'Shaughnessy Company Funeral Directors, founded in 1889.
- B.A. in journalism, The Ohio State University.
- Serves on the Greenways Working Group of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission and the board of the Columbus Historical Society.
7 of 11 sections researched · 11 sources
Charlie Earl
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Jon Husted
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Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
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The race in pictures
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A note on our coverage
Read before the columns: where one candidate has more entries than another, this says which of the two reasons it is.
We have checked 1 claim by Jon Husted, 0 by Charlie Earl and 0 by Maryellen O'Shaughnessy. The gap is in our research, not in them.
Donors: 1 for Maryellen O'Shaughnessy, 0 for Charlie Earl and 0 for Jon Husted. The gap is in our research, not in them.
Endorsements received: Jon Husted has 27 entries, Charlie Earl has 0 entries and Maryellen O'Shaughnessy has 0 entries. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Where they stand: Jon Husted has 14 entries, Maryellen O'Shaughnessy has 2 entries and Charlie Earl has 0 entries. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Jon Husted's record in office has 20 entries, Maryellen O'Shaughnessy's has 2 and Charlie Earl's has 0. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
Sources: Jon Husted has 53 entries, Maryellen O'Shaughnessy has 5 entries and Charlie Earl has 1 entry. The difference reflects the length of each public record and the depth of our research; it is not a judgment.
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- Charlie Earl: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
- Jon Husted: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
- Maryellen O'Shaughnessy: Where they stand · What they have said, checked · Record in office · Money
Where they stand
Their own words, by issue, with the date, the venue and the link. A paraphrase is marked as one.
Business filings
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Campaigned on shrinking the Secretary of State's office budget by $14.5 million and eliminating about one-third of its staff positions, and on a roughly 21% reduction in the cost of starting a business in Ohio.
Source: Jon Husted
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Campaign priorities
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
making America affordable again
Source: foxnews.com
My focus is on delivering for Ohio’s working families
Source: foxnews.com
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Data centers and electricity costs
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Data-center operators, rather than households and small businesses, should pay for the power infrastructure their facilities require.
Sources: husted.senate.gov · cnbc.com
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Elections administration
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Campaigned on making it "easy to vote and hard to cheat," emphasizing both voter access and ballot-security measures, and on his record as a fiscal conservative from his time as House Speaker.
Source: Jon Husted
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
free, fair and open elections, with increased voter participation
Source: Maryellen O'Shaughnessy to launch bid for secretary of state
Energy permitting
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
We can’t build Ohio’s energy future and lower costs for working families if it takes up to a decade just to get a permit.
Source: Husted, Barrasso host permitting reform roundtable in Columbus
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Great Lakes
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
We must remain vigilant against invasive species and continue protecting our lakes so they can support Ohio and America for generations to come.
Source: Senate passes Husted-backed bill to protect Great Lakes
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Immigration and border security
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Secure the border and give law enforcement more tools to convict those who traffic fentanyl into Ohio communities.
Source: husted.senate.gov
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Immigration and jobs
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
American workers should always come first, and this bill closes an outdated loophole that lets companies bypass them.
Source: Husted introduces bill to modernize H-1B wage threshold and protect American workers
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Nuclear energy
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
This plant is creating good-paying Ohio jobs close to home for people in Piketon, strengthening our domestic nuclear fuel supply and helping position Ohio at the center of America’s nuclear future.
Source: Husted, Capito visit Centrus to discuss Ohio’s future in nuclear energy
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Redistricting
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
None found in the records checked
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Framed her candidacy around competitive legislative apportionment, or redistricting reform.
Source: Maryellen O'Shaughnessy to launch bid for secretary of state
Regulation
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Continue the regulatory reform and government-efficiency work he ran as lieutenant governor.
Source: husted.senate.gov
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Taxes
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Backed the Working Families Tax Cuts Act's cuts to taxes on tips and overtime pay and its tax deduction of up to $6,000 for seniors.
Source: husted.senate.gov
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Voting administration
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Issued a directive standardizing early-voting hours across all 88 counties on weekdays, ending a patchwork where individual county boards set their own hours, and described the move as bringing consistency to how Ohio counties ran early voting.
Source: Jon Husted
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
Workforce training
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Expand career-technical education and job-training routes that are an alternative to a four-year degree, building on the TechCred program he created as lieutenant governor.
Source: husted.senate.gov
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
None found in the records checked
What they have said, checked
Newest first. Each check is shown in the checker's own rating word, with their name, the date and the link.
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
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voted for her own personal stimulus package -- a taxpayer-funded pay raise for herself
PolitiFact rated this False, October 7, 2010 · the check
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
Not yet researched
Record in office
Dated actions. Any evaluation of an action is printed with the name of whoever made it and the link.
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Person | Date | Kind | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Husted (R) | 2001 | office | Ohio House of Representatives |
| Husted (R) | 2005 | office | Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives |
| Husted (R) | 2009 | office | Ohio Senate |
| Husted (R) | 2011 | office | Ohio Secretary of State |
| Husted (R) | 2019 | office | Lieutenant Governor of Ohio |
| Husted (R) | 2025-01-21 | office | United States Senator for Ohio |
| Husted (R) | 2005 | bill | 2005 (bill): Was Speaker of the Ohio House when it passed a state budget that included the largest income tax cut in Ohio history and elimination of thre |
| Husted (R) | 2007 | action | 2007 (action): Accepted an honorary degree from the for-profit ECOT online charter school, the only one it awarded, and about $28,500 to $36,000 in campaig |
| Husted (R) | 2010-10 | statement | 2010-10 (statement): His 2010 campaign aired a TV ad claiming opponent Maryellen O'Shaughnessy "voted for her own personal stimulus package -- a taxpayer-funded " |
| Husted (R) | 2010-10-18 | action | 2010-10-18 (action): The Ohio Republican Party, with Husted calling the mailer fair at the time, distributed a mailer tying O'Shaughnessy to indicted politician |
| Husted (R) | 2011 | action | 2011 (action): Cut the Ohio Secretary of State's operating budget by about $14.5 million (per Wikipedia) and business-startup costs by about 21 percent (pe |
| Husted (R) | 2014 | action | 2014 (action): As secretary of state, carried out the 2014 end of Golden Week, the period when Ohioans could register and vote early on the same day, which |
| Husted (R) | 2014-05 | bill | 2014-05 (bill): Ohio Senate Bill 238 (2014) eliminated the first week of early in-person voting, ending "Golden Week"; Husted's own 2014 directive further c |
| Husted (R) | 2014-09-29 | ruling | 2014-09-29 (ruling): The U.S. Supreme Court, 5-4, stayed lower-court rulings that had ordered Golden Week and cut early-voting hours restored, letting the SB 238 |
| Husted (R) | 2014-10 | action | 2014-10 (action): In a dispute over his name appearing on voter-information posters at Hamilton County polling places during his own re-election bid, Husted c |
| Husted (R) | 2017-01 | action | 2017-01 (action): Implemented online voter registration in Ohio as secretary of state; it opened January 1, 2017. |
| Husted (R) | 2018-06 | action | 2018-06 (action): As secretary of state, directed a supplemental process that removed from the rolls voters who had not cast a ballot since 2008. The ACLU and |
| Husted (R) | 2019 | action | 2019 (action): Supported House Bill 6, Ohio's 2019 nuclear and coal subsidy law, at the center of a federal criminal case over about $60 million routed by |
| Husted (R) | 2019 | action | 2019 (action): Launched the InnovateOhio initiative as lieutenant governor and used an artificial-intelligence review that removed about 5 million words fr |
| Husted (R) | 2019 | action | 2019 (action): Created TechCred, a state credential and workforce-training program, and expanded career-technical education access for Ohio students as lie |
| Husted (R) | 2019 | action | 2019 (action): Backed tax breaks for building data centers in Ohio as lieutenant governor (2019-2025). Ohio now has about 240 data centers; WVXU does not a |
| Husted (R) | 2019 | action | 2019 (action): The Ohio Republican Party credits him with helping bring Intel's Ohio semiconductor investment to the state while he oversaw economic develo |
| Husted (R) | 2025-06 | bill | 2025-06 (bill): Co-authored and leads the Nuclear REFUEL Act (S.2082), which would streamline federal licensing for nuclear fuel reprocessing and recycling |
| Husted (R) | 2026-06-04 | vote | 2026-06-04 (vote): Voted no on the Warnock motion to commit S. 2 to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to investigate loss of Medicaid coverage (Senate |
| Husted (R) | 2026-07 | bill | 2026-07 (bill): Introduced the Ratepayer Protection Act, which would put the cost of power infrastructure for data centers on their operators rather than on |
| Husted (R) | 2026-08 | statement | 2026-08 (statement): Said he opposes further tax breaks for data centers, after supporting the incentives as lieutenant governor. |
| O'Shaughnessy (D) | 1997 | office | Columbus City Council |
| O'Shaughnessy (D) | 2009-01 | office | Franklin County Clerk of Courts |
| O'Shaughnessy (D) | 2011 | action | 2011 (action): As Franklin County Clerk of Courts, her office implemented electronic court filing starting around 2011 and has processed more than half a m |
| O'Shaughnessy (D) | 2020 | action | 2020 (action): Returned surplus auto-title fee revenue to the county general fund, more than $7 million cumulatively plus an additional $3 million returned |
Charlie Earl
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
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August 2026 · statement
Said he opposes further tax breaks for data centers, after supporting the incentives as lieutenant governor.
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July 2026 · bill
Introduced the Ratepayer Protection Act, which would put the cost of power infrastructure for data centers on their operators rather than on households and small businesses. It passed the House 417-3 in September 2026 and was blocked from passing the Senate by unanimous consent.
Sources: husted.senate.gov · cbsnews.com
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June 4, 2026 · vote
Voted no on the Warnock motion to commit S. 2 to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to investigate loss of Medicaid coverage (Senate roll call vote 147), and no on the Ossoff motion to commit (vote 141).
Sources: govtrack.us · govtrack.us · tiffinohio.net
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June 2025 · bill
Co-authored and leads the Nuclear REFUEL Act (S.2082), which would streamline federal licensing for nuclear fuel reprocessing and recycling facilities, with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.
Sources: epw.senate.gov · husted.senate.gov
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2019 · action
The Ohio Republican Party credits him with helping bring Intel's Ohio semiconductor investment to the state while he oversaw economic development as lieutenant governor.
Source: ohiogop.org
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2019 · action
Supported House Bill 6, Ohio's 2019 nuclear and coal subsidy law, at the center of a federal criminal case over about $60 million routed by FirstEnergy. Former House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2023 and FirstEnergy paid $230 million in penalties in 2021. Husted testified as a defense witness in the related state trial of former FirstEnergy executives in March 2026 and has not been charged.
Sources: ohiocapitaljournal.com · wkyc.com · factcheck.org
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2019 · action
Launched the InnovateOhio initiative as lieutenant governor and used an artificial-intelligence review that removed about 5 million words from Ohio's regulatory code, according to his Senate biography.
Source: husted.senate.gov
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2019 · action
Created TechCred, a state credential and workforce-training program, and expanded career-technical education access for Ohio students as lieutenant governor (2019-2025).
Source: husted.senate.gov
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2019 · action
Backed tax breaks for building data centers in Ohio as lieutenant governor (2019-2025). Ohio now has about 240 data centers; WVXU does not attribute a number of them to the incentives.
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June 2018 · action
As secretary of state, directed a supplemental process that removed from the rolls voters who had not cast a ballot since 2008. The ACLU and Demos sued and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held the practice violated the National Voter Registration Act; the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that ruling 5-4 in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute in 2018.
Sources: pbs.org · ballotpedia.org · en.wikipedia.org
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January 2017 · action
Implemented online voter registration in Ohio as secretary of state; it opened January 1, 2017.
Sources: acluohio.org · ballotpedia.org
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October 2014 · action
In a dispute over his name appearing on voter-information posters at Hamilton County polling places during his own re-election bid, Husted cast the deciding tie-break vote on the county elections board to keep the larger poster displayed.
Hamilton County Democratic Party chairman Tim Burke, per WVXU:
a classic abuse of power exercised in Husted's own self-interest
· the sourceSource: Husted's posters going up in polling places, but does it matter?
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September 29, 2014 · ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court, 5-4, stayed lower-court rulings that had ordered Golden Week and cut early-voting hours restored, letting the SB 238 cuts stand for the 2014 election; the case was later settled in April 2015 with Golden Week permanently eliminated but some evening and Sunday hours restored through 2018.
Source: NAACP, et al. v. Husted, et al.
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May 2014 · bill
Ohio Senate Bill 238 (2014) eliminated the first week of early in-person voting, ending "Golden Week"; Husted's own 2014 directive further cut early voting by eliminating all Sunday hours except four hours on one Sunday, and all weekday evening hours, prompting NAACP v. Husted.
Source: NAACP, et al. v. Husted, et al.
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2014 · action
As secretary of state, carried out the 2014 end of Golden Week, the period when Ohioans could register and vote early on the same day, which the legislature's Senate Bill 238 eliminated, and by directive further cut evening and most Sunday early-voting hours. The NAACP, the League of Women Voters of Ohio and Black churches sued; a federal judge ordered it restored in 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed that order, and a 2015 settlement ended Golden Week permanently while adding some evening and Sunday voting hours.
Sources: acluohio.org · electionlawblog.org
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2011 · action
Cut the Ohio Secretary of State's operating budget by about $14.5 million (per Wikipedia) and business-startup costs by about 21 percent (per his Senate biography) over his term (2011-2019).
Sources: husted.senate.gov · en.wikipedia.org
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October 18, 2010 · action
The Ohio Republican Party, with Husted calling the mailer fair at the time, distributed a mailer tying O'Shaughnessy to indicted politician Jimmy Dimora that PolitiFact rated False, since the $100 Dimora contribution it cited was made on June 25, 2008, a month before the federal investigation became public, and more than two years before his September 2010 indictment.
PolitiFact Ohio, October 20, 2010:
False
· the sourceSource: Ohio Republican Party flier tries to tie Maryellen O'Shaughnessy to Jimmy Dimora
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October 2010 · statement
His 2010 campaign aired a TV ad claiming opponent Maryellen O'Shaughnessy "voted for her own personal stimulus package -- a taxpayer-funded pay raise for herself," referring to a 1998 Columbus City Council pay-raise vote; PolitiFact rated the claim False and the Ohio Elections Commission found probable cause the ad contained false statements.
PolitiFact, October 7, 2010:
False
· the sourceSources: Ohio Secretary of State candidate Jon Husted raps opponent Maryellen O'Shaughnessy for 'her own stimulus package' · For Ohio candidates, truth can often be pretty tricky
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2007 · action
Accepted an honorary degree from the for-profit ECOT online charter school, the only one it awarded, and about $28,500 to $36,000 in campaign contributions from ECOT's founder and associates. He declined to return the money after ECOT closed in 2018, when Ohio sought repayment of more than $100 million for students whose attendance the school could not verify.
Sources: ohiocapitaljournal.com · 10thperiod.substack.com
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2005 · bill
Was Speaker of the Ohio House when it passed a state budget that included the largest income tax cut in Ohio history and elimination of three business taxes, and backed creation of the EdChoice Scholarship program.
Sources: Jon Husted · About Jon
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
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2020 · action
Returned surplus auto-title fee revenue to the county general fund, more than $7 million cumulatively plus an additional $3 million returned in 2020, for a reported total exceeding $10 million during her tenure.
Source: Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
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2011 · action
As Franklin County Clerk of Courts, her office implemented electronic court filing starting around 2011 and has processed more than half a million vehicle title transactions per year, described as the most of any county clerk's office in Ohio.
Money
Totals and donors exactly as filed with the FEC or the Ohio Secretary of State, each figure with its filing link.
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
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Charlie Earl
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
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| None found in the records checked |
Totals as filed
Not yet researched
Top donors, as filed
Not yet researched
Outside spending
Not yet researched
In-state share
Not yet researched
Jon Husted
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
|---|
| None found in the records checked |
Totals as filed
None found in the records checked
Top donors, as filed
None found in the records checked
Outside spending
None found in the records checked
In-state share
Not yet researched
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| From | To | Dollars | Share of total | Note |
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Totals as filed
OhioSOS, as of November 2010: raised $778,452.
Source: Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
Top donors, as filed
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Jimmy Dimora · $100 · campaign committee · In state
Indicted Cuyahoga County official
Outside spending
None found in the records checked
In-state share
Not yet researched
The result
| Candidate | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Jon Husted | 2,013,674 | 53.7% |
| Maryellen O'Shaughnessy | 1,555,705 | 41.5% |
Sources
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: Charlie Earl · 2026 United States Senate special election in Ohio · Jon Husted · 2014 Ohio Secretary of State election · 2010 Ohio elections · Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
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Quick answers
When was the 2010 Secretary of State of Ohio election?
The election for Secretary of State of Ohio was held on November 2, 2010.
Who ran for Secretary of State of Ohio in 2010?
On the ballot for Secretary of State of Ohio, in surname order: Charlie Earl (Libertarian), Jon Husted (Republican), Maryellen O'Shaughnessy (Democratic).
Who won the 2010 Secretary of State of Ohio election?
Jon Husted won the election for Secretary of State of Ohio. Results as certified: Jon Husted 53.7%, Maryellen O'Shaughnessy 41.5%.
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