It’s clear the GOP underestimated just how unpopular this measure would be.
That might sound like too technical an issue to energize the average voter—in a special election held in August, on an off-year, no less—but Ohioans knew there was a secondary issue at play: a proposed amendment on the ballot in November that could make abortion access a constitutionally protected right in the state.was overturned last year. But that ban has been on pause, held up as the state Supreme Court ponders its legality.
Soon after the amendment was added to the November docket, the state’s Republican-controlled legislature kicked into gear—with an initiative, known as Issue 1, that proposed that instead of a simple majority of votes to pass a constitutional amendment, the state would require a supermajority of 60 percent of the vote.
found that only a third of the state’s amendments would have passed the 60 percent, supermajority threshold.
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