This upcoming Tuesday, Ohio has an election with one issue on it. The proposal, if it receives over 50% Yes votes, will make it so proposals to amend the Ohio Constitution would require 60% or more votes in favor as opposed to the "50% + 1" that is needed now.
It is a bit more complicated than that, but in essence the proposal would make it more difficult to amend the constitution. Of course, anyone who thinks about it for more than 5 seconds in good faith would arrive at the conclusion that a simple majority vote is way too low to amend the Constitution. It starts to get ridiculous when you have over 100 amendments.
Now, you would think, with Ohio becoming more red, leftoids would actually like a proposal that makes the constitution a bit less susceptable to the popular will, right? Wrong. It turns out, in November, they are trying to ram through an amendment that would enshrine abortion into the constitution and basically give a blank check for 9 month aboritions.
As such, the entire propaganda machine has been mobilized against the proposal to raise the bar for amending the state Constitution. Big groups that take money from all over the country, such as the ACLU, have gotten invloved and handed out free signs like candy. So now people are bombarded with "Vote NO" signs everywhere along with commercials and mail insinuating that "they" are trying to "take our democracy" and that voting no is the patriotic thing to do.
Until recently, I thought it was a lost cause. But I have reason to believe it will actually be quite close next Tuesday.
Point of this post being, anyone in Ohio, or anyone who knows people in Ohio, please tell friends and family to get their asses out and vote Yes on the proposal on August 8th. Even if it fails, we still have a very good shot at defeating the abortion amendment in november, but this proposal passing would be very good for the long term health of the state. The constitution should just not be able to be amended so easily.
Sorry for the wall of text but I figure if it reaches even a few potential voters it is worth it.
I dunno about that. The child sacrificing cult managed to protect their rituals in a red state like Kansas. Probably not legitimately, but the GOP has been burying its head in the sand about fraud for a long time and would rather go extinct than do something about it.
For what its worth, I haven't gotten the feeling that Ohio has much fortification going on. Doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but I wouldn't count on it.
The thing with this is, a lot of well meaning right leaning people have been tricked into voting no. Whereas the November amendment is much harder to trick an anti abortion person into voting for. If this proposal barely fails then I think we have a good shot to gain a few percentage points to win in November. Especially considering the state does not support abortion and that turnout will be higher then.