Ohio Constitution

A Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge ruled Ohio's six-week ban unconstitutional Thursday, but parts of the law can be appealed.

Voters in Ohio have strongly defeated Issue 1 on Tuesday, which would have made it harder to amend the state’s constitution, according to the Associated Press’ projections.

Early voting runs from July 11 to Aug. 4 on weekdays at county boards of elections across Ohio and Aug. 5 and 6 the weekend before the election.

The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol needs to get 125,000 signatures to be placed on the November ballot.

Groups collecting signatures for the abortion amendment said they plan to submit the signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State on Wednesday.

The Ohio Supreme Court last week decided the August 8 election could go forward. We discuss the showdown in August, the budget bill and other statehouse news.

Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who supported the ban on most August special elections, says in a court filing that law doesn't apply to state legislators in ordering an August special election on an amendment to make it harder to change the constitution.

Ohio voters are set to go to the ballot on Aug. 8 to decide on a constitutional change that would make it harder to pass future amendments. The language they will see on the ballot has changed.

The Ohio Supreme Court said some of Issue 1's language is incorrect and told the Ballot Board to fix it, but let other language that opponents argued was unfair stand.

The coalition that filed an earlier lawsuit against the amendment itself has lodged a legal complaint, saying the Ballot Board is allowing the use of misleading language for the amendment Ohio voters could decide in August.