Former Ohio governors against raising constitutional threshold
Bob Taft, John Kasich, Dick Celeste and Ted Strickland all spoke out against the Republican-backed proposal to raise the threshold to 60%.
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Bob Taft, John Kasich, Dick Celeste and Ted Strickland all spoke out against the Republican-backed proposal to raise the threshold to 60%.
The Ohio Senate approved a resolution last week that would raise the threshold for citizens to pass future changes to the Ohio Constitution from 50%-plus-one to 60%.
Former Republican Ohio Gov. Bob Taft has voiced opposition to the Legislature's plan to raise the vote threshold for new constitutional amendments.
Republican Ohio lawmakers are considering a bill that would create a special August 2023 election to put a constitutional change before voters in advance of November election.
A group of Republican Ohio lawmakers are dead set on raising the threshold for passing amendments to the state constitution and resurrecting an August special election to do so. But some in the party aren’t comfortable with such an aggressive maneuver. Monday, former Ohio Governor Bob Taft, a Republican, spoke out forcefully against it.