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In September 2023, the Ohio Redistricting Commission passed a new statehouse map by a 7-0 vote. Although this map was gerrymandered to approximately the same degree as the previous maps, because it had been passed with bipartisan support, in November 2023, the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed the three lawsuits filed against it. [9]
The Ohio state constitution is one of many within the United States that allows issues to be proposed directly to the state's population. The allowance of voter-led initiatives was written into the constitution by the Initiative and Referendum Process Amendment of 1912, [ 3 ] and since then, the official system for proposing additional ...
Legislatively-referred amendment: August 2023 Ohio Issue 1, which would raise the threshold for ballot measures to amend the state constitution, requiring petition signatures from all 88 counties in the state instead of the current 44, removing a 10-day period for curing of petition signatures, and increasing the electoral threshold for passage ...
[8] The NOH8 Campaign was created in 2009 as a result of the passage of Proposition 8, which added an amendment to the California Constitution to ban gay marriage. Proposition 8 was effectively overturned in 2013 as a result of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to affirm a lower court's ruling on Perry v. Schwarzenegger. [9]
The measure was immediately challenged in court, and in 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the defendants in the case had no legal standing, which meant that Proposition 8 was blocked and ...
In November 2023, voters in Ohio passed an amendment to the Ohio Constitution to restore reproductive rights that were lost when the U. S. Supreme Court overruled Roe vs. Wade in its Dobbs decision.
The clerk of courts office keeps records for the common pleas, municipal, appeals and domestic relations courts. The juvenile and probate courts, which have the same judge, have their own clerk.
Some were held prior to the federal elections on November 8. Many were initiated by state legislatures, while others were initiated by public petitions. In all, there were 141 ballot measures on ballots across most U.S. states and the District of Columbia at any point throughout the year.