Ohio votes against Issue 1 in special election. Here's what that could mean for abortion rights.
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Voters in Ohio rejected a measure known as Issue 1​ that would have raised the bar for constitutional amendments on the ballot.

Voters in Ohio went to the polls to decide whether to approve a measure known as Issue 1​ that would raise the bar for constitutional amendments on the ballot. In the ultimate irony, the vote against changing the amendment process exceeded the 60% supermajority that the special election was seeking to require in the first place.

  • Nevermore9197@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    The people of Ohio are generally very centrist to left leaning. We however have been so (illegally) gerrymandered that it certainly doesn’t appear that way. Rural Ohio is Conservative just like everywhere else in this country.

    When decisions are made democratically, as this was, we usually make the correct decision. That’s why the right tried to take this away from us.

    • broguy89@lemm.ee
      611·
      1 year ago

      Trump won Ohio. Presidential elections are not gerrymandered at the state level.

      • na_th_an@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        Gerrymandering affects turnout, especially when done as blatantly and for as long as they have in Ohio.

      • Pennomi@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        That’s not strictly true. Each state determines its own way to determine delegates.

        An except from https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

        All States, except for Maine and Nebraska, have a winner-take-all policy where the State looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote. Maine and Nebraska, however, appoint individual electors based on the winner of the popular vote within each Congressional district and then 2 “at-large” electors based on the winner of the overall state-wide popular vote.

        While it is rare for Maine or Nebraska to have a split vote, each has done so twice: Nebraska in 2008, Maine in 2016, and both Maine and Nebraska in 2020.