Ohio Republican lawmakers keep trying to override voters and go around abortion rights amendment

By: Marilou Johanek

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: March 31, 2026

Words: 977

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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Despite extraordinary efforts by Ohio’s Republican overlords in 2023 to stop Ohioans from amending their constitution with a simple majority vote, they failed.

Ohio voters saw through the ruse peddled by legislative right-wingers to raise the bar for passing constitutional amendments to a 60% threshold.

GOP schemers tried to steal the majority voting rights of Ohioans in a sleepy special election in August 2023. The goal was to grab power from the …

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