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.
This was going to be a big measure of whether my wife and I moved our family out of this state. As a father of girls I could not bear keeping them here if the draconian GOP had their way. Ohio voters did good today. Hopefully we continue this momentum.
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.
