Und so weiter. Take your pick of today’s headlines about the THREE MILLION Ohioans who came out to vote in the middle of August in a seemingly obscure bureaucratic referendum.
BUT one that would make it more difficult to defend abortion rights, see, which seems to have fired up a whole lotta people.
[Voters] overwhelmingly rejected Issue 1, an amendment that would have raised the threshold to pass a constitutional amendment from a simple majority to 60 percent, as well as complicate the process to bring citizen-initiated ballot measures to voters in the first place. Though it had profound implications for a number of issues, it was widely seen in the state as a way to thwart November’s measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s Constitution.
The measure’s defeat now gives abortion-rights supporters a clearer path to victory.
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Protecting abortion access is extremely popular in the United States. Efforts that would make it harder to ensure abortion rights can help voters understand how Republican politicians are trying to tilt elections to thwart majority rule.
August 9th, 2023 at 2:10PM
There’s got to be material for Mr UD’s colleagues in coming to terms with initiative, referendum, recall, and primaries, all of which sound promising on paper, and each of which has bitten partisans of all stripes, whether it’s Ohio’s conservatives in the instant or California’s taxing authority years ago with Proposition 13; and the party primaries (absent some sort of ranked choice or other filtering) go astray all the time.
August 10th, 2023 at 6:13AM
Stephen: Mr UD‘s a big fan of ranked choice “if you do it right.”
November 7th, 2023 at 10:27PM
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