Ohio Supreme Court Rules State Issue 1 Ballot Language Must be Rewritten June 14, 2023Hannah Poling The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the Ohio Ballot Board must rewrite some of the language that will appear as State Issue 1 before voters on the August special election ballot. ...
Issue 1 was aballot measureto change the Ohio Constitution to include protections for abortion access. According to ballot language, the measure would establish in the state constitution "an individual right to one's own reproductive medical treatment," including to make decisions on abortion, contra...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio election officials have approved ballot language that will describethis fall’s Issue 1, a redistricting measure, as requiring gerrymandering when the proposal is intended to do the opposite. The Republican-controlled Ohio Ballot Board...
Ohio’s constitutional amendment, on the ballot as Issue 1, included some of the most protective language for abortion access of any statewide ballot initiative since the Supreme Court’s ruling. Opponents had argued that the amendment would threaten parental rights, allow unrestricted gender surgeries...
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Ohio voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a state constitutional amendment, Issue 2, to ban noncitizens from voting. It was one of many ballot initiatives dealing with election integrity in this year’s elections. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Issue 2 had passed with 77.1% support from ...
Ohio’s constitutional amendment, on the ballot as Issue 1, included some of the most protective language for abortion access of any statewide ballot initiative since the Supreme Court’s ruling. Opponents had argued that the amendment would threaten parental rights, allow ...
Ballot board members in August were split on the language’s approval, with Democratic state Rep.Elliott Forhan, of South Euclid, and Hicks-Hudson outvoted by the board’s Republican members, Secretary of StateFrank LaRoseand state Sen. Theresa Gavarone, of Bowling Green, and its fifth member...
In anopinion earlier this month, the high court required the ballot board to make two small changes to its approved language — but it let stand the passage that will describe Issue 1 as requiring gerrymandering. The court's Republican majority agreed with ...
This fall’s Issue 2 will be aproposal to legalize recreational marijuana, whose ballot language cleared the committee Thursday without discussion. Gonidakis, a key champion of the August amendment to raise the threshold for constitutional changes to 60%, said educating voters on the transposition ...