MEGA THREAD - 2023 Ohio Special Election - Voters Reject Issue 1 - eviltoast
  • 2piradians@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is this the same referendum format requiring half the votes +1 to pass? The exact thing they’re trying to kill off?

    EDIT: The measure should have to be supported by the same vote threshold to pass that it seeks to impose.

    • lingh0e@lemmy.film
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      1 year ago

      The irony is even dumber since they already passed HB 458 which forbids such an election in August.

      They broke their own rule, a rule that they themselves pushed through.

      Don’t ever pretend that the GOP cares about rules or laws. They will literally do whatever they must to remain in power.

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      1 year ago

      Sort of the ironic soft underbelly of small-d democratic institutions. You overthrow them by winning power democratically and keeping it by force, whereas if someone wants to take it back for democracy they have to then take it by force and keep it democratically, the harder proposition.