In the pursuit of even sneakier ways to undermine abortion rights in the state, Ohio Republicans are taking direct aim at democracy.
rights in the state, Ohio Republicans are taking direct aim at democracy. Voters in the state head to the polls Tuesday to consider a ballot initiative that would raise the threshold to amend the state constitution from a simple majority to 60 percent. Republicans’ immediate goal with Issue One is clear: to ward off an attempt by their constituents to codify abortion, which voters broadly support, into the state constitution.
“They have said the quiet part out loud, that putting Issue One on the ballot was 100 percent about trying to rig the election against the abortion amendment in the fall,” Ohio Democratic Party Chairover the weekend. But “while this is about abortion today, if we allow Issue One to pass, it’s also about labor rights, it’s about voting rights, it’s about civil rights.
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