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Ohio Voters Reject Constitutional Change Intended to Thwart Abortion Amendment [1]

['Michael Wines', 'More About Michael Wines']

Date: 2023-08-08

Ohio voters rejected a bid on Tuesday to make it harder to amend the State Constitution, according to The Associated Press, a significant victory for abortion-rights supporters trying to stop the Republican-controlled State Legislature from severely restricting the procedure.

The abortion question turned what would normally be a sleepy summer election in an off year into a highly visible dogfight that took on national importance and drew an unprecedented number of Ohio voters for an August election.

Late results showed the measure losing by 13 percentage points, 56.5 percent to 43.5 percent. The roughly 2.8 million votes cast dwarfed the 1.66 million ballots counted in the state’s 2022 primary elections, in which races for governor, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House were up for grabs.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/ohio-election-issue-1-results.html

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