If everyone reading this finds two friends, family members or neighbors who are not aware of Issue 1 and helps them get their absentee ballots to vote, how many votes might that mean?
A photo of Heather Locklear from the era when she was hawking shampoo and an original Star Wars poster. Both offer lessons in Ohio's Issue 1 battle over democracy.The headline on this column is all the evidence you need that we’re not above cheesy gimmicks for a good cause. Pop culture references can attract big audiences, and you keep telling us we need to reach more people about the dangerous assault on Ohio democracy on the Aug. 8 ballot.
I’ve heard from a lot of people who feel helpless about Issue 1. The challenge seems enormous to them. This strategy reduces the challenge from enormous to simple. Who can’t find two people to educate about this terrible move by Ohio’s elected leaders to kill majority rule in deciding Ohio’s important issues.Quick reminder: Issue 1 would raise the percentage of votes needed to adopt an amendment to the Ohio constitution from 50 percent plus 1 to 60 percent.
How bad is this? We keep looking for ways to illustrate the damage this will do to the state. To make this as elementary and accessible as we can, we turn to Star Wars. But Palpatine couldn’t do it on his own. He needed the ruling senate to voluntarily relinquish its authority by giving him emergency powers as Supreme Chancellor. Jar Jar Binks is the character who proposes it, and the Galactic Senate, fearing false threats against democracy, agrees.“I love democracy,” Palpatine says as he accepts his dictatorial powers.
about how they had been unaware of this attack on majority rule and will fight it. I also heard from some who said they want changing the constitution to be more difficult because changing the U.S. Constitution is difficult.Second, the federal and state constitutions have different purposes. The U.S. Constitution is the nation’s statement of principles, with basic rules for government structure. The state constitution is more of an operating manual. It is supposed to be much more detailed.
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