Days after Ohio voters passed Issue 1 and codified abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution, Republicans are not accepting the election results.

In a new, unhinged press release issued by the Ohio House Republican Committee, GOP members rant that “foreign billionaires” impacted the election results and call the results tainted by so-called “foreign interference.” It is unclear what they are referring to.

Ohio voters overwhelmingly voted ‘Yes’ on Issue 1 by a margin of 56.6% to 43.4%.

The press release further argues that the results of the election do not invalidate a 6-week abortion ban previously passed by the Ohio Legislature and that “no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Your concept of the math is wrong. A two-thirds majority, where twice as many people have one opinion versus the other, has only a 17% difference from 50/50. The problem with looking at it like that is you ignore half the spread between opinions and that becomes more pronounced the greater the margin. Having 30% more supporters on one side than the other ( the math: 56.6÷(100-56.6)) is pretty significant, if not overwhelming. I’d say it was more than okay, and Ohio’s constitution says it’s more than enough.

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        11 year ago

        Thanks for trying to explain rather than saying I’m apparently commenting in bad faith.