Just say No!
Issue 1 on the August 8 Special Election ballot is a costly attempt by Ohio legislators to slip one by Ohio voters.
Issue 1 seeks to limit the right of ordinary citizens to initiate and pass constitutional amendments that would be favored by a majority of Ohioans by imposing a 60 percent requirement for passage. And that is assuming future citizen-initiated issues could even make it to the ballot, since Issue 1 would also make that process significantly more difficult than it has been for more than 100 years.
Astonishingly, the legislature last year banned August special elections to prevent special interests from stealthily passing ballot issues when voters weren’t paying attention. Yet they have made an exception for themselves, ordering a special election this August to thwart any citizen-initiated Constitutional amendments in the future.
And here is the greatest irony of all: Issue 1, proposed by a handful of power-hungry legislators, requires only a 50 percent plus one majority to pass, instead of the 60 percent majority it seeks to impose on future citizen-proposed amendments..
Don’t let Ohio’s legislators consolidate their power at the expense of our cherished “one man, one vote” tradition. Show up at the polls on August 8, and just say no to Issue 1.
Sam Barone
Mount Vernon, OH
One person-one vote, still works the same, except like the Federal government and over 40 other states, this Yes on issue 1 requires 60 votes instead of 51 votes. This makes it more difficult to slip the bad ideas through. We got over 200 hundred amendment to slipped through with this lowest bar of 50 plus 1. Most states have a couple of dozen amendments,, so obviously the special Interest groups have been slowly taking away our freedoms, while we have been ignorant to what has been going on. Larry Householder, and his group used this low bar to increase our electric costs!!!! Wake up Ohio voters!!!