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On Wednesday, Aug. 23, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) rejected ballot language submitted by a pro-voting group seeking to implement a citizen-led redistricting commission.
Pro-democracy groups have started collecting signatures for an amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would allow a bipartisan and citizen-led redistricting commission to draw the state’s congressional and state legislative maps.
On Friday, Aug. 11, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a Republican lawsuit that sought to prevent an abortion rights amendment from being placed on the ballot in the upcoming November election.
On Tuesday, Aug. 8, Ohio voters rejected a Republican-backed proposal that would have made it harder for voters to amend the Ohio constitution.
On Monday, July 17, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced his run for the 2024 Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.
On Friday, June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case from Ohio Republican legislators invoking the recently rejected radical independent state legislature (ISL) theory.
On Friday, June 16, the Ohio Supreme Court — in a 4-3 party line decision — declined to block an August special election over a proposed anti-democratic amendment to the Ohio Constitution.
On Monday, June 12, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the Ohio Ballot Board and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) to rewrite parts of the ballot language for Senate Joint Resolution 2.
On Tuesday, May 23, a group of Ohio voters and the group One Person One Vote filed a lawsuit challenging the adopted ballot language for Senate Joint Resolution 2, a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would increase the threshold to pass constitutional amendments from 50% to 60%.
On Friday, May 12, individual Ohio voters and One Person One Vote, a coalition representing Ohio voters, filed a complaint in the Ohio Supreme Court challenging recently passed Senate Joint Resolution 2.