Tag: Amend
Ohio Voters Reject Ballot Measure to Raise Threshold Needed to Amend Constitution
Special-interest groups committed millions of dollars to defeat the measure, to ensure that it would remain easier to push their agenda via ballot amendment.
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Ohio ballot initiative to make it more difficult to amend state constitution fails
An Ohio ballot initiative to make it harder to amend the state constitution, a change conservatives said was needed to protect the state from a radical liberal agenda, has failed to pass in a lopsided vote.
Voters overwhelmingly rejected State Issue 1 by a large margin on Tuesday, meaning the threshold for future ballot measures to pass will remain at 50% rather than the 60% the initiative would have required had it passed.
The race was called by the Associated
Progressives Poised to Remake Ohio Government if Measure Raising Threshold to Amend Constitution Fails
Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether the threshold will remain at 50 percent.
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