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Ohio’s Democratic Party Chair criticizes the state GOP leader over comments about confusing Ohioans
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio GOP Party Alex Triantifilou told a county party event that “confusing Ohioans was not such a bad strategy” in defeating last fall’s redistricting… Read More
2024 Year in Review: Ohioans decided on its sixth redistricting ballot issue in 50 years
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Activists frustrated at the multi-year saga of the maps created by the Ohio Redistricting Commission took their plan for an independent map-drawing panel to voters… Read More
With Issue 1 dead, will Ohio lawmakers pursue redistricting reform?
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio voters on Tuesday night handily rejected Issue 1—which would have thrown out the current redistricting system, in which elected officials draw the lines, by… Read More
Ohio votes against Issue 1, rejecting a plan to put citizens’ panel in charge of redistricting
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Voters have rejected the redistricting proposal to change how legislative and congressional district maps are drawn which would have replaced the seven elected officials on… Read More
Big wheels turning as Ohio voters decide who will take the drivers’ seat in the state’s redistricting process
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — As early voting begins in Ohio, organizers for and against Issue 1 are beginning to take the road to convince voters to get on board… Read More
Low information voters in a high turnout election could sink or swim Ohio’s Issue 1 redistricting amendment
By: George Shillcock | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — This November’s election marks the fifth time in 20 years Ohioans will vote on how the state draws its congressional maps with Issue 1 on the… Read More
Opponents of Ohio’s Issue 1 launched their first ad against the redistricting proposal
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A few days after the backers of the Issue 1 redistricting amendment on the fall ballot launched their ad campaign, the issue’s opponents have done… Read More
The first major ad dropped in the campaign for Issue 1 redistricting amendment in Ohio
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In the hours leading up to Wednesday’s Ohio Ballot Board meeting where contentious summary language for a redistricting amendment on the November ballot will… Read More
Ballot language for Issue 1 is set, but backers of the redistricting plan say the wording is unfair
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Republican-dominated Ohio Ballot Board has made some minor tweaks to the language voters will see for Issue 1 when they go to the… Read More
Redistricting is on the ballot once again. What’s different this time?
By: The Ohio Newsroom
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The Ohio Supreme Court ordered minor changes to ballot language for Issue 1, the redistricting amendment. The group behind the redistricting measure, Citizens Not… Read More
Final language for Issue 1 must be approved, as Ohio elections officials prep for a key deadline
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Monday’s Ohio Supreme Court decision on ballot summary language for Issue 1 came as a relief to elections officials, who are facing a key… Read More
Ohio Supreme Court lets stand most of the Ballot Board’s language on Issue 1
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Most of the three-page summary that backers of this fall’s Issue 1 say is biased and unfair will be what voters see when they cast… Read More
Ohio’s 24-hour abortion waiting period is on hold in a lawsuit over its constitutionality
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A Franklin County judge has agreed to halt Ohio’s 2021 law requiring a 24-hr abortion waiting period. The ruling came from a lawsuit that… Read More
Abortion rights backers ask court to stop Ohio’s required 24-hour waiting period
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Advocates for abortion rights are suing over a state law that requires patients to wait a minimum of 24 hours before they can get an… Read More
Ohio redistricting amendment backers raise $23 million, and have intentionally spent even more
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The group behind the November ballot issue that would change the process for drawing lawmakers’ district lines has raised more than $23 million this… Read More
Redistricting proposal on Ohio’s fall ballot includes elements from Iowa plan DeWine likes
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine wants Ohio voters to reject the redistricting amendment on the November ballot in favor of a future plan he hopes to… Read More
Expect more challenges to Ohio’s abortion laws from the new constitutional amendment
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — News of a lawsuit challenging some state abortion laws came down last Friday. And supporters of abortion rights suggest it won’t be the last… Read More
Purple Ohio? Parties in the former bellwether state take lessons from 2023 abortion, marijuana votes
By: Julie Carr Smyth | Samantha Hendrickson | AP/Report for America
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For more than half a century, Ohio was one of the most important states to watch during presidential election years, a place where both parties competed… Read More
A filing suggests that Ohio’s AG believes at least part of the six-week abortion ban is still constitutional
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is asking a Hamilton County judge deciding the legality of the state’s ban on abortion after six weeks to… Read More
The order blocking enforcement of an Ohio abortion ban stands after the high court dismisses appeal
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has dismissed the state’s challenge to a judge’s order that has blocked enforcement of Ohio’s near-ban on abortion for the past 14 months. The… Read More
Ohio’s 2023 abortion fight cost campaigns $70 million
By: Julie Carr Smyth | Samantha Hendrickson | AP/Report for America
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — This fall’s fight over abortion rights in Ohio cost a combined $70 million, campaign finance reports filed Friday show. Voters overwhelming passed November’s Issue 1, which… Read More
Starting today, Ohioans have a constitutional right to an abortion as Issue 1 takes effect
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A month after nearly 57% of voters approved Issue 1, the amendment guaranteeing abortion access and reproductive rights has taken effect in Ohio. “I am… Read More
The judge weighing Issue 1’s impact on Ohio abortion laws keeps anti-abortion groups from writing in
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge in Ohio has denied a group of anti-abortion advocates the ability to weigh in on long-running litigation over abortion clinic transfer agreements, as… Read More
Democratic Ohio Reps introduce a bill they say will repeal unconstitutional abortion laws
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A few weeks after nearly 57% of Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment on abortion access in Issue 1, House Democrats have introduced a… Read More
LaRose says opponents of the abortion-rights measure gave input on ballot language
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose consulted with three prominent anti-abortion groups while drafting the contested ballot language used to describe Issue 1, an abortion-rights measure overwhelmingly approved by… Read More