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MPC's avatar
May 1Edited

I expect Yost to write wildly misleading and distorted ballot summaries for qualified immunity and the Ohio Voters Bill of Rights that the board (controlled by Rs) will sign off on. That's what LaRose did with those ballot initiatives enshrining abortion (which still won) and independent redistricting (which failed).

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PollJunkie's avatar

The independent redistricting one insinuated that it would "gerrymander" the state.

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MPC's avatar
May 1Edited

Yep, and it was deliberately confusing enough that the "no" vote won. Had LaRose been forced to do an accurate summary, it would've gotten to a bare majority "yes".

LaRose and Yost are probably going to write something as misleading for the OH Voter Bill of Rights, probably something along the lines "shall this bill allow noncitizens to vote and make elections less secure?"

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Guy Cohen's avatar

The redistricting one was polarized on partisan lines. It doesnтАЩt seem like it got a lot of Democratic votes against it.

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MPC's avatar

I remember reading a story from an Ohio Republican voter who voted "no" on it because it was deliberately confusing (he wanted to end the gerrymandering) -- just enough to throw off indies and moderate Rs who are tired of Matt Huffman running the state into the ground.

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John Carr's avatar

And yet under the current system Republicans still tried to gerrymander OH-01 and do devious things in the state legislature (which they did in the last few redistrictings) like connecting the city of Dayton to blood red rurals in totally different counties rather than the immediate suburbs in the same county to keep Dems from having a state senate and second state house seat there.

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