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Ohio residents on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a GOP effort that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution.
Voters rejected new restrictions on ballot measures — with implications for November and 2024.
Proposal making it harder to change state’s constitution fails, teeing up an upcoming vote on a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio, a Republican, argued that Tuesday’s vote over how to amend the state constitution was about protecting the state from a flood of special interest money. Secretary of State Frank LaRose, another Republican, urged voters to protect the “very foundational rules” of their constitution. But Ohio voters clearly didn’t buy it. About 3 million of them showed up to vote for abortion rights — an issue that was not technically on the ballot, but was the undeniable force that trans
The Dobbs ruling has turned a coalition of liberal, swing and moderate Republican voters into a political force. Even in August in Ohio.