OPINION: 'When you see Issue 2 on your ballot, remember how this whole thing started. A village of 3,800 people wanted to let 30 people vote in its local elections. Local people voted to let other local people vote on local issues,' writes Eric Foster.
, was enacted to give Ohio’s cities and villages the power to govern themselves. The concept driving this grant of power is known as “home rule.”
In my mind, that is all that Yellow Springs did in passing its referendum allowing its noncitizens to vote in local elections. It met the needs and wants of its people. And it did so through a process very similar to the one currently being used to prevent Yellow Springs — or any other local government — from ever doing what it did again. It presented a specific question to its people: Should noncitizens be allowed to vote in our local elections? Its residents responded, “Yes.
Reasonable minds can disagree on this issue. But regardless of the opinion, it is an opinion on a local issue which affects only the residents of that municipality. And that, to me, is why this constitutional amendment is a problem. It seeks to impose the opinion of a majority of Ohioans on a local issue, thereby reducing the authority of local governments to address the needs and wants of their people. In my mind, this issue really isn’t any of our business.
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