And it could hobble future citizen-initiated amendments by increasing the requirements to even make it onto the ballot. If the question known as Issue 1 is approved, it would make it harder to pass a measure that would bake abortion rights into Ohio’s state constitution in the November election.
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Business and the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation are among the influential lobbies supporting a ballot measure that would increase the bar to pass constitutional amendments to 60% of the vote from a simple majority. (Bloomberg) - The effort to defeat an abortion-rights amendment in Ohio has resulted in a special election Tuesday that’s putting powerful business groups on the side of abortion opponents - for what they say are economic reasons.
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