COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A special Statehouse session convened by Gov. Mike DeWine has reached a third day, where lawmakers advanced a bill to override a deadline issue that could keep President Biden off of Ohio’s November ballot.

The Ohio House passed House Bill 2 with a vote of 63 to 31 on Thursday, legislation to delay the state’s candidate certification deadline and ensure Biden is on Ohio’s ballot. State law currently requires elections officials to certify the November ballot 90 days before the election on Aug. 7, while Biden is not set to be nominated until the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19.

The Ohio Senate also passed their own temporary fix on Tuesday, as part of the amended House Bill 271. However, both measures could be moot given the Democratic National Committee announced on Tuesday it has found its own solution and will hold a virtual roll call ahead of its Aug. 19 convention to choose Biden as their nominee.

“Of course, we are going to vote to make sure that President Biden is on the ballot,” said Rep. Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati). “The DNC already took care of that on Tuesday with their announcement, but we believe that Ohioans have a right to vote for the sitting President of the United States. It should’ve been a permanent fix, but clearly, we will support a temporary fix as well.”

“My view was look, let’s just put a belt and suspenders on it and put him on the ballot though the conventional mechanism,” said Rep. Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati). “Republicans cried foul for months when Colorado tried to bar Trump from the ballot on some technicality, and so we would look like hypocrites if we were to deny Biden a place on the ballot due to some similar technicality that most people don’t care about.”

This is not the first time this has happened to a presidential candidate. Both Democratic and Republican candidates have faced the same issue in the past with the state’s filing deadline. Despite some members on both sides of the aisle signaling that a permanent fix would be the proper solution, that was not taken up.  

“I think we all would like to know why we have this law, but people were not prepared to make a snap judgement with a permanent fix without giving the Secretary of State ample time to consider all of the ramifications of that change,” Seitz said.

Both the House’s and the Senate’s version would need to be passed by the other before going to the governor’s desk. The House did not take up what the Senate passed before adjourning. The Senate is meeting Friday at noon to consider a concurrence vote with what the House passed on Thursday.