Tuesday’s Ohio Special Election Attempts to Take Away Simple Majority Rule for Ballot Initiatives. Now the Legislature is After Ranked Choice Voting.
The Ohio special election on Issue 1, the legislature’s attempt to raise the threshold to pass a citizen ballot initiative to 60%, is Tuesday, Aug. 8th. Now, in an effort to wrest even more power from its citizenry, an Ohio legislator has introduced a bill going after ranked choice voting.