Abortion protections are on the ballot in Ohio this fall—so state Republicans are trying to change the rules this summer.
But both Kansas’ and Michigan’s measures passed with under 60 percent of the vote, since their state laws only require a simple majority for passage. That’s also currently the standard in Ohio, which is why Republicans are gunning for Issue 1. In fact, they’ve been at the ready, aswritten by Ohio Rep.
Brian Stewart revealed a concerted effort to raise Ohio’s vote threshold in order to prevent “a new scheme from an outside special interest group—almost always from the Left—designed to buy on the statewide ballot what they can’t persuade us to do in the legislature.”late last year that any Ohio special election that took place in August was “wasteful and cost the taxpayers precious scarce resources.
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