Ruling says gerrymandered legislature doesn’t have to follow a law it just passed
“Gavel,” a sculpture by Andrew F. Scott, outside the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Issue 1 would raise the percentage of votes needed to pass a voter-initiated amendment from 50% to 60%. It would also require that a given number of the hundreds of thousands of signatures needed to get an amendment on the ballot come from each of Ohio’s 88 counties instead of the current 44. — the exact opposite of what former President Theodore Roosevelt argued for when he successfully advocated adoption of the current system in 1912.
The voting-rights group One Person One Vote sought an order stopping the Aug. 8 election, noting that under a law signed by Gov. Mike DeWine on Jan. 6, almost all statewide August elections are prohibited. “Regardless of what the Revised Code provides with respect to special elections, however, Article XVI, Section 1 of the Ohio Constitution controls the matter before us,” it said. “That provision authorizes the General Assembly to submit the issue ‘at either a special or a general election as the General Assembly may prescribe.'”
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