Under HJR 6 proposed by Sec. of State Frank LaRose, citizen ballot initiatives for constitutional amendments would need 60% to pass, while amendments placed on the ballot by Ohio’s gerrymandered legislature would still only need a simple majority to pass.
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“I see that there are a few people in the state who are determined to stamp out the voices of the rest of us,” said Rev. Dr. Amariah McIntosh of the Ohio Council of Churches. But his office wouldn’t answer when asked why he was trying to ramrod the measure through in a lame-duck session and trying to get it on the May ballot.
Opponents of HJR 6 said that if LaRose and his allies really wanted to limit citizen-initiated amendments, there’s a more effective way to do that. They could make it easier to gather petitions for citizen-initiated statutes and require that they remain on the books for at least a few years. The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, a group that advocates for progressive ballot measures, reports that in 2017 it was monitoring 33 bills intended to alter the citizen-initiative process. By 2022, that number had increased to 109, it said.
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