The Ohio Constitution since 1851 has had 172 amendments. Many, with less than 60% vote. Raising the threshold to 60% would be a good idea regardless, but this election was about abortion, and it drew millions of dollars from the abortion lobby nationwide. There will be a vote on November to amend the constitution to protect unlimited abortion, and that outcome is what the August vote was intended to forestall.
Critics are right to say this was a political gambit, holding a special election in August after having changed the law to allow for it. Their fear is that the pro abortion amendment will pass, and they wanted to make it harder for that to happen. Nice try but it failed.
Ohio is not really a big pro-abortion state, but the money and influence of the national abortion industry focussing a massive advertising blitz on one state, was too much for the people to resist.
Great post.
It should have passed because it’s good to need 60% to alter a state Constitution. The rats have a golden bullet with the abortion issue. They will put ballot props on the November ballots in every swing state and they will use it to get control of all of them. The single issue vote is a scourge and a gift to the rats and it looks to me like the woman vote is going to finally hand the rest of the country to the Democrats