[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as McKitrick v. LaRose, Slip Opinion No. 2023-Ohio-136.]

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SLIP OPINION NO. 2023-OHIO-136 MCKITRICK ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. LAROSE, SECY. OF STATE, ET AL., APPELLEES. [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as McKitrick v. LaRose, Slip Opinion No. 2023-Ohio-136.] Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently accepted, on mootness grounds. (No. 2022-1346―Submitted January 10, 2023―Decided January 24, 2023.) APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, No. 22AP-582, 2022-Ohio-3800. _________________ This cause is dismissed as having been improvidently accepted, on mootness grounds. KENNEDY, C.J., and FISCHER, DEWINE, DONNELLY, STEWART, BRUNNER, and DETERS, JJ., concur. _________________ McTigue & Colombo, L.L.C., Donald J. McTigue, J. Corey Colombo, and Katelyn I. Street, for appellants, Bradley T. McKitrick and William S. Jordan III. SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

Dave Yost, Attorney General, and Julie M. Pfeiffer, Michael A. Walton, and Garrett M. Anderson, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee Secretary of State Frank LaRose. _________________

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