For over 100 years Ohio has required simple majority of votes in order to amend its constitution.  Earlier this year Ohioans gathered over 500,000 signatures to amend Ohio's constitution in the November election to enshrine abortion rights.  Early polls showed that 58% of Ohio voters favored the amendment.

 
So what did Ohio's contemptible majority Republican legislature do?  They hurriedly voted to have a special election and scheduled it for today which would raise the threshold to 60% to pass an amendment to the constitution.  If passed, the November abortion rights amendment would require 60% to pass.  The loathsome Republication legislators deliberately scheduled the vote for today because they know that very few voters turn out in an August election, especially when there is only one issue on the ballot.

 
BTW, earlier this year Ohio Republicans BANNED August elections, calling them "overly expensive, low turnout endeavors that weren't worth the trouble."  Then they turned around and scheduled an election in August because they're Bible thumping hypocrites.

 

Ohio is a 54-46 state in favor of Republicans but the reprehensible Republicans have lost their attempt to fuck women in the only way they can - at the ballot box.  With about 97% of precincts reporting, the measure was failing by a margin of 56.6% to 43.4%.  Republicans are so out of touch with the voters!!

 
Also, the Supreme Court is full of shit for claiming that Dobbs merely returned the question of abortion to the states.  The goal was really to get the conservative states to prohibit abortion as much as possible.  That's why some hillbilly states do not include exceptions for rape or incest.  Another reason is that hillbilly Republican states actually rely on rape and incest to keep their populations up.

-- Modified on 8/9/2023 12:33:35 AM