There's going to be a November vote on abortion. The GOP wanted to jack up the ability to pass it to 60% of the vote.

In what is being celebrated as a victory for abortion rights advocates, Ohioans have decided to keep the minimum voter threshold of a bare majority for amending their constitution, rejecting an attempt to raise it to 60%.

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Issue 1 may sound tedious, but the rare summer election had potential implications for a later vote, scheduled in November, which could establish a state-wide right to abortion.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Same, honestly. The abortion part of this is (rightly) getting a lot of attention, but this would've gutted the only genuinely democratic instrument available to Ohioans and basically permanently doomed this state.