Elections board will vote on accepting Aey’s petitions

YOUNGSTOWN — An attorney representing David P. Aey overstepped his authority by issuing subpoenas for a nonexistent hearing to be held Tuesday, Mahoning County election officials said.

“The board will only decide whether or not we’ll accept [Aey’s] petitions or not at the meeting,” said Robert J. Wasko, board chairman. “There is no hearing. I’m not going to entertain anything else on the subject” at the meeting.

The board was to meet Tuesday to determine if Aey, a former sheriff’s deputy, is eligible to run as a write-in candidate for county sheriff in the Nov. 4 election.

Robert J. Rohrbaugh II, Aey’s attorney, sent subpoenas to a number of people that “required” them to attend Tuesday’s elections board meeting and to provide “phone records of incoming and phone logs calls” from the past few weeks.

“This is one of the strangest things I’ve seen,” said Mark Munroe, the board’s vice chairman, about the subpoenas. “This is not a hearing and he doesn’t have the authority to issue subpoenas for our meeting.”

Rohrbaugh couldn’t be reached today to comment.

Sheriff Randall Wellington filed a protest with the elections board today about Aey’s eligibility to be a write-in candidate.

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