A November ballot initiative could restore abortion rights in the state, but only if voters first disable a GOP dead man’s switch in August.
to raise the threshold for constitutional amendments proposed by citizen initiatives from a simple majority to the super-majority level of 60 percent. It was enacted with exactly the current scenario in mind and is designed to stop an anti-abortion win at the ballot box. If it passes, the 59.1 percent of Ohioans who favor abortion rights could be thwarted by a minority of voters.
The two votes are a virtual certainty now that the anti-abortion-amendment signature drive has ended, as NBC NewsState officials must now review the signatures for duplicates and other potential errors. The groups, however, said they’d collected nearly twice the needed number of signatures — more than 710,000 — in the event that any were deemed invalid.
The energy needed to collect those signatures must now be converted into a drive to turn out voters in not one but two off-year elections. If fundraising is any indication, getting the attention of voters, even in the dog days of August, may be easier than you’d think : Officials with the reproductive rights coalition said Wednesday that they plan to spend at least $35 million through November. Meanwhile, Protect Women Ohio, a group opposing the November measure, said it had committed to spending another $20 million to combat the November measure. That’s on top of the $5 million the group has already spent since it launched its campaign in March.
These two Ohio votes are the only abortion measures currently certified for this calendar year. So the Ohio votes will be watched carefully by advocates weighing 2024 abortion rights ballot initiatives (already on tap in Maryland and
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