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Ohio In National Spotlight Today
By: Associated Press
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A nationally watched fight over the bargaining abilities of 350,000 unionized public workers tops a list of ballot questions that face Ohio voters in an unusually
vigorous off-year election Tuesday.
Voters will also decide whether to allow the state to opt out of a federal health insurance mandate and whether judges should be allowed to sit on the bench through age 75. Akron and Columbus are also electing mayors.
The effort to turn back Ohio's collective bargaining law is being widely watched. It has pitted unions representing police, firefighters, teachers, and other government employees against Republicans seeking to rein in the size and cost of government and limit labor's reach.
GOP Gov. John Kasich has traversed the state to defend the law.
The opposition leads in polls and fundraising.