Calling all Ohioans on DU

[EnergizedLib]

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/07/23/ohio-special-august-election-why-vote-no-on-issue-1-out-of-control-will-have-all-the-power-suddes/70430717007/

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If Issue 1 passes, about the only amendments likely to even reach the ballot could be those proposed by the General Assembly’s GOP supermajorities.

For 111 years, Ohioans have been able to amend their state constitution — and it is theirs, not the legislature’s — by a simple majority (50% plus 1) of the votes cast statewide. That can’t happen if Issue 1 wins approval on Aug. 8, because Issue 1 would require a 60% “yes” statewide vote to pass future constitutional amendments.

And for 111 years, Ohioans have been able to place a proposed a constitutional amendment on the ballot by gathering a specified share of signatures from at least 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties. But if Issue 1 wins approval on Aug. 8, it would require future petitioners to gather a share of signatures in all 88 counties.

Also, for 111 years, if sponsors of an amendment submit petitions with fewer than the required number of voter signatures, sponsors are granted an additional ten days to gather the necessary signatures. Not so if Issue 1 wins approval on Aug. 8: Petitioners would no longer have such a ten-day grace period.

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Choice is on the ballot in Ohio, democracy is on the ballot in Ohio. Tyrannical state legislatures need to be curtailed, and here’s an excellent way to get your rights back to vote no on August 8, then to vote for choice in November.

Republican legislatures bite the hands that feed them by not wanting them to vote on certain issues because they know they’ll lose.

I’m not in Ohio, I’m the next state over in Indiana aren’t given a say on this issue. All you Ohioans, you are - even Republicans lean no more than they do yes (41% to 38%).

Do not sit this referendum out, get the vote out if you’re a Buckeye. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell everybody you know, if possible.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[SalamanderSleeps]

1. I'm driving myself and 2 others to the polls this coming Friday. :)

[EnergizedLib]

2. Great

See if you can get more.

Remember, we’re not getting our rights back overnight. It’s up to people like you that Americans get their rights back at all.

[SamKnause]

3. I voted by mail.

Confirmed my ballot was received on Ohio.gov. website.

Confirmed by calling the Board of Elections.

My ballot is in the vault waiting to be counted.

[EnergizedLib]

4. Let's hope it's next discarded/discounted

I don’t trust anyone with an R next to their name, as even the ‘saner’ Republicans these days can disappoint you.