Ohio’s Issue 1 failed when 56% of the voters rejected it. The measure would have made it easier to change the state’s constitution.
The measure required 60% of voters to enact any new amendments to the constitution instead of a simple majority. It would have also changed how people can gather signatures for citizen amendments.
The vote is important because it affects abortion and saves the lives of unborn human beings.
The Republicans admitted the proposal was to protect life in November.
Half of the right favors reasonable abortion limits, say 15 weeks.
So what the Republicans want to do is way out of favor and suicidal in any next election, probably for all Republicans.
Noticing that 58% of Ohio favors say 15 weeks, and the pro-reasonable-limits inclination to put a referendum on the ballot in the fall to fix the deluded lawmakers, the Right thought to raise the constitutional change limit from 50%, below that support, to 60%, above it, to cut that referendum off.
The defeat of that change may help the Republicans stay in power, but their brand will probably stick and decide the next few elections against them anyway.
60% is probably a good idea for constitutional change, but not in response to another agenda to cut it off, not here.
"The measure would have made it easier to change the state's constitution."
Wouldn't it have made it harder to change the constitution? By requiring a supermajority instead of a simple majority?
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