EDITORIAL: Issue 1 is a solution in search of a problem cooked up by Statehouse insiders to defang the citizen initiative powers Ohioans have had for 111 years to check a corrupt legislature.
it would get in the way of voter-petitioned constitutional amendments in Ohio by making it much harder to get an amendment on the ballot in the first place -- then requiring 60% approval rather than the current majority.failed to pass a single new ethics law in the wake of the House Bill 6/FirstEnergy/Larry Householder racketeering scandal
Since 1912, voter passage of a citizen-initiated state constitutional amendment has required “yes” votes from a majority of voters voting on the question. Backers of Issue 1 falsely suggest the 50% requirement makes Ohio an exception -- an easy-passage exception -- among the 17 states which grant voters the power to initiate proposed state constitutional amendments.
Oregon, interestingly enough, requires a supermajority vote only when it’s “equal to any supermajority voting requirements in a proposed amendment,” cleveland.com’s Andrew J. Tobias reports, citing theIn other words, if Oregon’s requirement were in effect in Ohio, Issue 1′s passage would need 60% of the vote, not just the simple majority its backers hope for.
Issue 1 would significantly toughen the rules for gathering sufficient signatures. First, Issue 1 would extend the 5% requirement to all 88 counties, arguably giving voters in even tiny counties the opportunity to road-block amendments before they ever could reach the statewide ballot. No other state requires voter signatures from every county to qualify proposed amendments for the ballot, Tobias reports.
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