Voting Rights Petition Rejected Again by Ohio Attorney General
Voting Rights Petition Rejected Again by Ohio Attorney General
A coalition of voting-rights groups is vowing to fight on after Ohio Republican Attorney General Dave Yost issued his second rejection Thursday of petition language it has submitted for a proposed constitutional amendment. Yost found the amendment's title — “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights” — was “highl...
Rejected because of the title of the petition
Yost found the amendment's title — “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights” — was “highly misleading and misrepresentative” of the measure's contents, even as he acknowledged that his office had previously certified identical language. It certified a Nursing Facility Patients’ Bill of Rights in 2021 and another Ohio Voters Bill of Rights in 2014.
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