Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights(OURR) deserve tremendous credit for making this happen. With Issue 1, the coalition overcame Republicans’ dogged determination to keep Buckeye State voters from advocating for their own bodily autonomy at the polls. The victory is all the sweeter given how ha...
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 ...
Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who chairs the board, presented a three-page, single-spaced summary of his own. It said Issue 1 would “repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering" approved by large margins in 2015 and 2018, and “eli...
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What might be driving this difference? More women voters are angry about the Supreme Court's June 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The question before voters with Issue 1 is whether to amend the state constitution to guarantee the right to abortion. ...
However, with 57.1% of Ohio voters voting "no," the ballot item was decisively rejected. The results of the August 8 special election indicated that the state's 1912 simple-majority bar would stay in place. Bessett concludes that if Issue 1 does not pass, a safe, common medical procedure...
But state Sen. Bill DeMora, D-Columbus, who has been advocating for the central Ohio area as the Intel project gets going, said the blame doesn’t just fall on the administration. “Intel needs to do the stuff that they’re required to do, and then I think the federal government’s ...
LaRose said he remains committed to helping get Issue 1 passed —“let there be no doubt about that.” Next year's successful GOP nominee will take on one of Ohio's winningest and longest-serving politicians. Voters first sent Brown to the U.S. Senate in 2007 aft...
Ohio Republicans attempted earlier this year to raise the threshold for approving changes to the state constitution, which would've made doing so more difficult. Under the measureput to votersduring a special election held in August, also called Issue 1, any proposed constitutional amendment would'...
Known as Issue 1, the measure would have changed Ohio’s referendum law – lifting the threshold to amend the state’s constitution from a simple majority to 60% of the vote. Its passage would have effectively raised new obstacles to direct democracy, making it harder for citizens to...