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.

    • @na_th_an
      11•1 year ago

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

    • Pennomi
      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.

      • Dark Arc
        2•1 year ago

        Well, it is true of Ohio.

    • Dark Arc
      1•1 year ago

      True, though so did Sherrod Brown… Ohio’s political personality is definitely a weird one. As a resident, the Trump and J.D. Vance thing still strikes me as exceptionally strange given Ohio typically goes for moderate Republicans. I think it’s really the redder parts of the state don’t “recognize” the extremism/have been successfully convinced the left is “equally extreme.”

      It’s frustrating.