Republicans further worked to twist the literal words in front of voters in November. OURR argued that voters should be able to read the full amendment’s text at the polls, but the Ohio Ballot Boardtook the GOP’s side, approving “misleading” anti-abortion summary language that replaced t...
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CHICAGO (AP) — Abortion wasn’t technically on the ballot in Ohio’s special election. But the overwhelming defeat of a measure that would have made it tougher to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution this fall was the latest indicator that...
In Ohio, abortion rights advocates defeated a ballot initiative in August that would have raised the threshold to amend the constitution from a simple majority to 60%. Now, after urging voters to vote “no” on the August amendment – also called Issue 1 – they are urging people to vote ...
People gather in the parking lot of the Hamilton County Board of Elections as people arrive for early in-person voting in Cincinnati, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. They urge a vote for or against the measure known as Issue 1. Issue 1 is the only abortion question on any state ballot this ye...
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They are doing it via Ohio state ballot Issue 1. Every serious person I have discussed this with in my home state hates the prospect of unelected bureaucrats with unlimited budgets gerrymandering the entire state to reach an amorphous goal of "proportionality" in representation. Citizens who ...
“they have said the quiet part out loud, that putting issue one on the ballot was 100 percent about trying to rig the election against the abortion amendment in the fall,” ohio democratic party chair elizabeth walters said over the weekend. but “while this is about abortion today, if ...
If Issue 1 passes, it would raise the threshold for passing future changes to the Ohio Constitution from a simple majority to 60%, making it significantly harder for aNovember ballot issueenshrining abortion rights in the state to get enough votes. ...
4:16 PM / November 7, 2023 Early exit polls show an Ohio electorate unhappy about the overturn of Roe v. Wade It's Election Day in Ohio and the issue of abortion is directly on the ballot. More than a year after the Dobbs decision, early exit polls show an Ohio electorate that ...