I don’t understand it. It seems responsible and common sense that you would need 60% to change a State Constitution and that is this what proposal was. I think they are going to regret this and soon when the woke crazies start stuffing things onto their Constitution. 50% is a low threshold considering what happened with voting integrity
60% was a good idea. However, this was framed as an abortion rights issue, and the clear majority who voted against the 60% idea probably saw it as an abortion rights issue.
The original Roe decision back in 1973 was terrible Constitutional law and deserved to be overturned. However, the decision has been a disaster for conservatives. Dems and the lapdog media have spun the Court decision to overturn Roe as a decision to outlaw abortion. A large majority of Americans do not want abortion outlawed, and it’s pretty clear that even a lot of Republican women don’t support outlawing abortion. A lot of women support abortion rights, and calling them sluts and babykillers isn’t helping the conservative cause.
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.