Only in gerrymandered Ohio are state senators and house members serving in office who are so lousy at math and loose with taxpayer money.
The “fast-tracked” HJR1 Bill being shoved down the throats of the citizens of Ohio is a travesty that ushers in “minority rule.” Citizens, in the process of garnering the required number of signatures on a legal petition and are jumping through all the hoops to get a ballot initiative in the hands of the Ohio voters, will get the goalposts moved in mid-game.
Unnecessarily spending $20 million in taxpayer’s money for a special election to change a simple majority rule to a 60 percent threshold for passage of an initiative should anger all Ohioans. It would allow 41 percent of the voters to nullify 59 percent of the electorate. When I went to school, I was taught that 59 is more than 41!
Call your state representatives. HJR1 should never become law.
Alice Donahue
Lima
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