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    Is this the same referendum format requiring half the votes +1 to pass? The exact thing they’re trying to kill off?

    EDIT: The measure should have to be supported by the same vote threshold to pass that it seeks to impose.

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      411 year ago

      The irony is even dumber since they already passed HB 458 which forbids such an election in August.

      They broke their own rule, a rule that they themselves pushed through.

      Don’t ever pretend that the GOP cares about rules or laws. They will literally do whatever they must to remain in power.

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        Thank you for this. I live in Ohio and did not know this law existed. I have not heard it brought up in any discussion or news coverage (although I admit my decision was made early and have not spent much time listening to the ‘debates’). Did LaRose and company offer any reason as to why they think HB 458 does not apply in this case?

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      261 year ago

      Sort of the ironic soft underbelly of small-d democratic institutions. You overthrow them by winning power democratically and keeping it by force, whereas if someone wants to take it back for democracy they have to then take it by force and keep it democratically, the harder proposition.