Pandemic hinders citizen-driven ballot initiatives
Pandemic hinders citizen-driven ballot initiatives By Jim Provance - The Blade, Toledo, Ohio (TNS) COLUMBUS — The mad ballot rush last year to get voters to etch a higher minimum wage, an early voting calendar, and stricter state legislative term limits into the Ohio Constitution ran head-long into a coronavirus wall. So did an effort to force a bill mandating background checks for nearly all gun sales into the laps of a reluctant Republican-controlled General Assembly. The question now is whether the atmosphere has changed enough for citizen-driven democracy to venture back out into the st...
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