The election that could determine the future of democracy in Ohio<\/p>\n
In May, Republicans who control the state legislature abruptly sent a proposal<\/a> to the ballot called Issue 1 that would make it much harder to change the constitution. If approved, a constitutional amendment would need 60% of the vote to pass instead of a simple majority. It would also make it significantly harder for citizens to even propose a constitutional amendment, requiring signatures from 5% of the voters in all of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties (the state currently requires organizers to get signatures in 44).<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Ohio\u2019s proxy war over abortion reaches its final battle<\/p>\n More than 500,000 voters have already voted on Issue 1, an amendment that would make it significantly more difficult<\/a> to alter the state\u2019s constitution and bring citizen-initiated ballot measures to voters in the first place. The outcome of Tuesday\u2019s election will have immediate implications for the fate of Ohio\u2019s abortion rights ballot measure<\/a> this November, but many predict it will shape the two parties\u2019 strategies on ballot measures more broadly.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The election that could determine the future of democracy in Ohio In May, Republicans who control the state legislature abruptly sent a proposal to the ballot called Issue 1 that would make it much harder to change the constitution. If approved, a constitutional amendment would need 60% of the vote to pass instead of a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[215,141,126,18],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion-candidates","tag-anti-abortion-strategy","tag-anti-ballot-initiative-measures","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}