Ohio has gone "deep red" over the past two decades and, as a consequence, the Buckeye State is the target of an attempt by the hard left to use its dark money machine to gerrymander to permanently favor the blue jerseys. They are doing it via Ohio state ballot Issue 1. Every serious...
Ohio Prescription Drug Ballot IssueBerkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksMark Caleb Smith
Previous research on the initiative process tends to underestimate the involvement of political parties in ballot measure contests as well as the impact of partisanship on initiative voting. Focusing on recent ballot contests in California, we find that the two major party organizations in California ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — All the political wrangling overOhio's Issue 1, a statewide ballot issue aimed at changing the way the state draws its political maps, has landed voters in a fix. While they are hearing from the campaign behindthe constitutional a...
It's a war over one word — "gerrymander" — and rarely have so many dictionaries been called into action during an Ohio ballot campaign. While there are certain neutral words to describe political mapmaking — "redistricting" or "reapportionment," for example...
Dublin — Dublin City Schools is putting the future of three new schools on the ballot for its voters next Tuesday. District leaders say they're overcrowded and the state is providing no relief. "We're really struggling. We've had to bring in trailers in several of our situatio...
“If I buy a house, and my neighbor’s (property) is zoned one way, I ought to be able to depend on the fact that their zoning stays the same.” Ullner said she also had concerns about the process that allowed this issue to go on the ba...
Pro-life groups involved in the unsuccessful opposition to anOhio ballot measurethat enshrined abortion access into the state’s constitution on Tuesday are offering up "postmortem" insight into what went wrong and pushing back on the popular media narrative that abortion is...
“Women's suffrage has been adopted only by the crude, raw, half-formed commonwealths of the sagebrush and windy plains,” declared one antagonist, “whence have come . . . foolish and fanatical politics . . . for a generation.” Read how the first state approved the female vote in ...
Then in November, Ohio will vote whether to enshrine abortion rights in that state's constitution. The vote comes after the state rejected GOP efforts to make such ballot measures tougher to pass. Other conservative states that could see upcoming ballot measures include Arizona,...