If the Ohio GOP's Issue 1 passes, it would increase the voting threshold for constitutional amendments to 60% in a clear effort to target November's abortion rights measure.
To add to the Republican corruption, they announced just last Thursday the closing of a majority of polling locations in the mostly Democratic areas of Cleveland and Akron. Anything to suppress the vote, and "steal the election". Yes, Republicans, I'm stealing your terminology. You can call me Dark Daniel.
Ohio has become the "poster child" for states that in theory are purple, but thanks to voter suppression and gerrymandering, are effectively red, if not beet red (another example is Texas, and yet another is Louisiana). We are watching our democracy die in real time.............
Ohio is, regrettably, taking the point (as in small platoon tactics) on voter repression by limiting the ability of voters to assert their will. This issue will affect more than just abortion.
What bothers me the most is that this is characterized as an abortion rights issue. I have and will continue to canvass for women’s reproductive rights, although I do not support abortion as a means of birth control. There are complications in pregnancy that threaten the mother, there are threats to doctors that perform a D&C (forcing many to quit doing so or just leaving the state), and there is rape and incest that may warrant medical intervention
It is a private matter between a woman and her medical doctor, not a religiously misguided old man. This is the real issue in Ohio, and the old men are running scared.
Yea, Missouri GOP has been up to this shit for a couple election cycles now. I’ve lost track of where it all stands, but the GOP supermajority is especially strong and evil here.
Which is why we must ALL be LOUD and STRONG in defeating Republicans nationally, statewide, and locally until they understand that their core issues go against everything We The People believe in. We need to give them a drubbing in the next 2 Novembers across the board in order to make it sink in how off the mark they've gotten.
We've sued over gerrymandering a couple times, and the State Supreme Court ruled in our favor. The corrupt State Legislature simply ignores it, with no repercussions. The only way this will ever be addressed is when the voters boot the corrupt Repubs out once and for all. But that is a long, long story for another day. Just ask Tim Ryan.
like Alabama. But I wasn't talking about suing. I was talking about passing a specific constitutional amendment. It would set up specific requirements for how districting is decided and provide that any legislator who votes for a redistricting that failed to meet those requirements is unable to run for re-election for X years.
Wouldn't that be sweet justice, after defeating Issue 1 here in Ohio, to get a constitutional amendment on the next ballot ('24)?!? I can hear the Republicans blood pressure monitors going off all across the state!! Great thought; I'll look into that one, for sure!
It's a problem in that it is minority rule. The people doing this don't speak for most of us, make it harder for the majority to get anything done . They are unfair, sneaky, elitist in the pockets of the special interests.
Kansas protected female reproductive rights by a 59% margin and Michigan by 56%. Applying those numbers, tentative Ohio would fail. The problem is getting all those who support women’s rights to get out and vote. They often don’t.
To add to the Republican corruption, they announced just last Thursday the closing of a majority of polling locations in the mostly Democratic areas of Cleveland and Akron. Anything to suppress the vote, and "steal the election". Yes, Republicans, I'm stealing your terminology. You can call me Dark Daniel.
Get ‘em, Dark Daniel!
Ohio has become the "poster child" for states that in theory are purple, but thanks to voter suppression and gerrymandering, are effectively red, if not beet red (another example is Texas, and yet another is Louisiana). We are watching our democracy die in real time.............
And we must fight back!
Ohio is, regrettably, taking the point (as in small platoon tactics) on voter repression by limiting the ability of voters to assert their will. This issue will affect more than just abortion.
What bothers me the most is that this is characterized as an abortion rights issue. I have and will continue to canvass for women’s reproductive rights, although I do not support abortion as a means of birth control. There are complications in pregnancy that threaten the mother, there are threats to doctors that perform a D&C (forcing many to quit doing so or just leaving the state), and there is rape and incest that may warrant medical intervention
It is a private matter between a woman and her medical doctor, not a religiously misguided old man. This is the real issue in Ohio, and the old men are running scared.
Yea, Missouri GOP has been up to this shit for a couple election cycles now. I’ve lost track of where it all stands, but the GOP supermajority is especially strong and evil here.
Which is why we must ALL be LOUD and STRONG in defeating Republicans nationally, statewide, and locally until they understand that their core issues go against everything We The People believe in. We need to give them a drubbing in the next 2 Novembers across the board in order to make it sink in how off the mark they've gotten.
Evidently the NRA has weighed in saying a no vote will allow the state to come for their guns. SMDH.
Because of course.
Their corruption knows no bounds!
can Ohio voters use the same procedure to stop gerrymandering?
We've sued over gerrymandering a couple times, and the State Supreme Court ruled in our favor. The corrupt State Legislature simply ignores it, with no repercussions. The only way this will ever be addressed is when the voters boot the corrupt Repubs out once and for all. But that is a long, long story for another day. Just ask Tim Ryan.
like Alabama. But I wasn't talking about suing. I was talking about passing a specific constitutional amendment. It would set up specific requirements for how districting is decided and provide that any legislator who votes for a redistricting that failed to meet those requirements is unable to run for re-election for X years.
Wouldn't that be sweet justice, after defeating Issue 1 here in Ohio, to get a constitutional amendment on the next ballot ('24)?!? I can hear the Republicans blood pressure monitors going off all across the state!! Great thought; I'll look into that one, for sure!
The crux of the matter is not the 60% per se, but the requirement that signatures must come from all 88 counties. In Ohio, that is a pipedream.
It's a problem in that it is minority rule. The people doing this don't speak for most of us, make it harder for the majority to get anything done . They are unfair, sneaky, elitist in the pockets of the special interests.
Kansas protected female reproductive rights by a 59% margin and Michigan by 56%. Applying those numbers, tentative Ohio would fail. The problem is getting all those who support women’s rights to get out and vote. They often don’t.