Posted on 08/08/2023 1:52:16 AM PDT by Libloather
Ohio voters on Tuesday will decide on a ballot measure to make it harder to amend the state constitution, a change conservatives say is needed to protect the state from a radical anti-gun, abortion and education agenda that could soon find its way to other states.
It's an issue that has already prompted a massive early vote turnout – one that has some election offices straining to manage the load.
"This is gubernatorial-level turnout," said Regine Johnson, deputy director of the board of elections in Stark County.
As of Wednesday, more than 533,000 people had voted by mail or in person since early voting began July 11, according to data collected by the Associated Press. That's nearly double the final early voting figures for Ohio's two previous midterm primary elections, which included races for governor and Congress.
Today, ballot measures to amend the Ohio Constitution need only 50% plus one vote to pass. But if State Issue 1 passes, that threshold would be raised to 60% – conservatives say this change is needed to protect the state from outside groups who want to alter the state's constitution.
"At its core, it's about keeping out-of-state special interest groups from buying their way into our constitution, which we're seeing happen far too often," Amy Natoce, press secretary for Protect Women Ohio, told Fox News Digital. "They're circumventing the legislative process and going directly after the constitution."
Democrat opponents have made the argument that the ballot measure would take away power from voters and give it to politicians.
"The purpose of Issue 1 is to silence the majority of Ohioans, and subject us to the policy preferences of a small group of extremists who have secured the favor of our unconstitutionally gerrymandered legislature," the ACLU wrote about the measure earlier this year.
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I’m in NE Ohio....I’ll be voting very soon this moring!! 😁
Florida passed this a few years ago. I wish the threshold was higher than 60%. Change of a Constitution should require at least 75% plus one vote.
The dreaded “mail-in” vote may be the signal that this will be another stolen vote count deal.........I’m afraid there’s no end to the Fraud, anyumore.
If the Dumbs hate this measure, they would really hate me, with a state Constitutional amendment taking a 2/3 vote in each house of the legislature, then ratification by a majority vote in 3/4 of the state’s counties.
Florida needs 60 percent? That’s a step in the right direction.
Democrats are totalitarians.
“Liberal”…. Meaning no tolerance for anything they don’t like tyrants.
This is something libs do during Presidential election years...put a referendum on the ballot containing an issue that their base is passionate about and use it to gin up voter turnout.
The conservatives need to step up their game.
Out of state donations or interference on any election should be banned with a punishment of death.
Republicans control Ohio and are the ones responsible for this being on the ballot in August
“I’m afraid there’s no end to the Fraud, anyumore.”
Aw, but there is. And this is the first step. It just took getting pissed off at the right place to accomplish it. The ordeal on Jan 6, 2020, was too little too late. By that time the discussion was over and couldn’t, and shouldn’t, be changed.
The real communication with the federal government starts at the lowest level of government action, that single vote from the people that are really effected by their decisions: the state polls being fed by the little towns and burgs that are the real heads of the country. The feds don’t deal in people, they work in numbers. Their reality is a game for money and power not as civil servants. They are really the only people that don’t count. They are put there by the voters to do a job and they now have created ways to protect and pay themselves whether they protect the people or not, their only job.
So when something happens, it can be corrected or supported using the common sense they’ve taken away with rules they made. Getting out to vote for something like this is their worst nightmare as that’s the only act they can’t legally reverse. It makes everyone pay for their actions, one way or another if those little towns and bergs do their job better than the representatives that have been doing theirs. And in the end, the people of those little towns and burgs will still be there. Failing or crooked representatives won’t. And that is not an impossible perfect world.
wy69
The amendments were getting ridiculous--I think amendments like the 'pregnant pig protection' amendment made most people realize the process had to be reigned in. I agree that the threshold needs to be higher than 60%.
Yep. I remember that stupid pig rule.
Au Contraire, mon Ami.......
There is NO law/legislation ever passed by the Voters that "Progressives" don't challenge in friendly, planted-Judge Courts, to get delays, litigations, etc. even when the Voters clearly have endorsed something that's not a fit for their Agenda.
They successfully stone-walled and destroyed Evidence in 2020's Presidential Election, and friendly/co-erced/OWNED Judges declared that We The People had no "Standing" to contest the fake vote outcome.
I agree that it's too cumbersome/obvious/costly for them to steal local Elections or Ballot initiatives, but that doesn't stop them from seeking friendly black-robed co-horts from delaying or wreaking havoc, in the interim, until lengthy Appeals and further litigaton delays the outcome.
IF Issue 1 passes in Ohio, which I am fearing may be hard to do, with so many women Hell-bent on keeping baby-killing as a legal method to remedy their mistakes, it's an uphill climb.
I think the folks understand what's at stake and will act accordingly. But, we're very conservative in my neck of the woods, who knows what the city folk will do...(?) :(
Voted YES early this morning. Rural village “community center”. Busier than I expected. Small farmers, small business people, Trump country. Hope it will be enough.
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We just returned from voting, and I can tell you the majority of the voters at the polling place were older(50+) women who were there alone.Very interesting. We both chose digital ballots that are machine printed so the vote can read it before it is inserted into another machine.
We are in an affluent suburb in southwestern Ohio.
“They successfully stone-walled and destroyed Evidence in 2020’s Presidential Election, and friendly/co-erced/OWNED Judges declared that We The People had no “Standing” to contest the fake vote outcome.”
I’m sorry. You didn’t get the premise of what I said. If you don’t vote the crooks in there, and that starts at the first vote, then they can’t be there to challenge any decision that was made by the people. And as you cull them, the states can’t provide the feds with the ammunition to stone wall and destroy.
That’s what happened in the abortion act removal. And that was not done by the elected. That rule has been sitting there for 50 years. It was done because enough voters said that the rule was horse skit and needs to be removed and put back at the state level which is the legal way to do it.
So the problems are two fold and can be changed with the vote, and only the vote. And that is the responsibility of the people on the ground floor. Not the vote counters, delivery trucks, electronic ballots, or the mail that gets them there. They are just tools. It is the responsibility of the voters to get the people in that do the job either right, honestly, or at all. And it is the individual states that decide their work, not the feds.
This is why liberal candidates, to include presidents, lean toward the center when election time comes around. They are scared of the truth and can’t justify their real agenda and platform when it comes time to tally. If they aren’t there because an election was done legit, they can’t challenge anything.
Saying that it is the fault of the elected is saying there is no responsibility to voters to make sure it is the correct vote. And it is saying the voters are not capable of speaking with their vote. The elected get away with what the voters allow them to do. Get rid of the crooks, and the responsibility is left at keeping them out. Again, the vote.
wy69
It SHOULD take a supermajority of voters to amend the constitution, especially since voter fraud is a so rampant these days.
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