Democrats Win Again, Thrashing Red Ohio and Defeating the Republicans Attempt to Stop Constitutional Change. Democrats Will Now Win in November

 Ohio Rejects Republicans Issue 1 This is behind a paywall but we wanted to get you the news within the first 20 minutes at 9:40 pm August 8 2o23 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/ohio-election-issue-1-results.html

Ohio Voters Take First Crucial Step To Protect Abortion Rights Ahead Of November Vote https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ohio-voters-issue-1-state-constitution-abortion-rights_n_64d28d42e4b05c10fd6cc0bb?5mf

Voters defeated Issue 1, handing a major victory to abortion rights advocates in Ohio. Voters in Ohio successfully thwarted a Republican attempt to make it harder to pass a November pro-choice ballot measure.

On Tuesday, Ohioans voted to defeat Issue 1, a ballot initiative to raise the threshold for altering the state constitution from a simple statewide majority vote to 60%. Although a simple majority has been the standard in Ohio for over 100 years, anti-choice Republicans in the state called for a special election to raise the vote threshold in a preemptive attempt to block the abortion-rights constitutional amendment that will be in front of voters in November’s general election.