It's not primarily about abortion rights. This vote was about preventing people from voting.
Each bullet point of the amendment was more fuckery than the last, and it starts with the 60% threshold.
More egregious than that was that it was going to move the signature requirement to get something onto the ballot from 5% of half the counties, to 5% of all the counties, significantly raising the cost to get anything accomplished (other than through the gerrymandered legislature).
Even more egregious, they wanted to eliminate the ten day period to fix any issues with the signatures. So you'd submit the signatures, and some rural county commissioner would say "this street belongs to the next county over". Now your signatures are invalid and you throw the entire effort into the trash.
If this passes, it would have pulled up the ladder. It would have prevented any other amendment supported by the people of Ohio.
Well, agreed. It about more than just abortion, but its definitely a lot about abortion.
The question was whether voters in moderately-red Ohio would vote to curtail their voting rights to practically ensure that abortion rights wouldn't be enshrined in their constitution. I'm glad to see the answer is "No, and it isn't close".
Only the traditionally Democratic countries voted against it plus some of the northern counties that are a bit more swing voters than they used to be. Most of the rural counties voted against their own interests as usual.
Was the signature requirement change also defeated?
Yeah, there was only one issue on the ballot which contained all of these changes. That issue was defeated.
It's not primarily about abortion rights. This vote was about preventing people from voting.
Each bullet point of the amendment was more fuckery than the last, and it starts with the 60% threshold.
More egregious than that was that it was going to move the signature requirement to get something onto the ballot from 5% of half the counties, to 5% of all the counties, significantly raising the cost to get anything accomplished (other than through the gerrymandered legislature).
Even more egregious, they wanted to eliminate the ten day period to fix any issues with the signatures. So you'd submit the signatures, and some rural county commissioner would say "this street belongs to the next county over". Now your signatures are invalid and you throw the entire effort into the trash.
If this passes, it would have pulled up the ladder. It would have prevented any other amendment supported by the people of Ohio.
Well, agreed. It about more than just abortion, but its definitely a lot about abortion.
The question was whether voters in moderately-red Ohio would vote to curtail their voting rights to practically ensure that abortion rights wouldn't be enshrined in their constitution. I'm glad to see the answer is "No, and it isn't close".
Only the traditionally Democratic countries voted against it plus some of the northern counties that are a bit more swing voters than they used to be. Most of the rural counties voted against their own interests as usual.
Was the signature requirement change also defeated?
Yeah, there was only one issue on the ballot which contained all of these changes. That issue was defeated.