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...
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...
Under two weeks from the midterm election, Ryan says he doesn’t know his standpoint on Ohio’s two ballot initiatives. State Issue 1 if passed would require judges to consider public safety when setting bail amounts for criminal defendants. State Issue 2 would prohibit non-citizens from voting...
Spring said he’s “pro-life” but also thinks “we have to have some legal abortion,” with a cutoff somewhere in the first or second trimester. The state’s six-week ban went too far, he said, but so does Issue 1, a ballot initiative that would prevent the state from restricting ...
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...
All the political wrangling over Ohio'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 amendmentthat it would prevent ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — All the political wrangling over Ohio'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 behind the constitutional
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Issue 1 needs a simple majority vote of 50% plus one vote to pass. A recent effort to make it harder to amend the state’s constitution by a citizen-led ballot initiative — by increasing that vote threshold to 60% —failed in the state’s August special election. ...
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...