Issues

How are issues put on the ballot? What issues may be on the ballot? Who determines what issues are on ballot?

April 1, 2025

Several requirements must be met before a proposed statewide issue can be placed on the ballot. Links explaining those procedures can be found here. The Ohio Ballot Board’s role in the process is first to determine whether the petition language contains a single issue and secondly, to prescribe the official ballot language and any missing arguments for each statewide issue.

Citizens Not Politicians – Stop Gerrymandering in Ohio

March 15, 2024

Politicians are failing us, ignoring constitutional standards for fair maps and ignoring demands from voters to end their gerrymandering ways. Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved state legislative redistricting reform in 2015 and congressional redistricting reform in 2018. Both reforms won with well over 70% of the vote and passed in all 88 Ohio counties. Today, Ohioans still don’t have fair districts.

YES! The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety

February 16, 2024

Despite the Ohio Ballot Board, led by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R), rewriting of the proposed amendment that was Issue 1 on the General Election Ballot, Issue 1 won overwhelmingly statewide – 56.62% YES and 43.38% NO. In Erie County, Issue 1 passed by 56.93% YES and 43.07% NO. Thank You all Ohioans! You saw through the misleading, incorrect information and outright lies that purposefully was intended to confuse voters by leaving out all the information regarding contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy and miscarriage care. LaRose focused on abortion and continues to lie about the medical procedure being used to kill babies right up to delivery.

YES! An Act to Control and Regulate Adult Use Cannabis

December 18, 2023

Another WIN! Issue 2 to Commercialize, Regulate, Legalize and Tax the Adult Use Cannabis will become law in Ohio on December 7, 2023, thirty days after the November 7th General Election. Issue 2 won statewide by 56.97% YES and 43.03% NO.

Issue 1 DEFEATED! Democracy Wins!

August 9, 2023

YOU DID IT! Democracy Wins! Ohioans rejected and trounced the concept of minority rule over the majority. Unofficial results: NO – 1,744,094 – 57.01%; YES – 1,315,346 – 42.99%. This was an historic turnout for an August Special Election! Thank You to everyone who wrote postcards, donated stamps, made calls, knocked on doors, posted yard signs, made donations and talked to family and friends to get out the vote! Every vote was – and is – important!

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