Secretary of State Jon Husted opposed Issue 3. Local officials reported roughly 125,000 outstanding absentee and provisional ballots. She blamed “a learning curve” for poll workers.
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He and others, including the American Civil Liberties Union, argue that it could make it even harder and more expensive for citizen-initiated amendments to pass. But a ballot issue that was meant to prevent marijuana legalization did pass yesterday, the so-called anti-monopoly issue. “I think the concept of the monopoly probably killed it, the Issue 2”, said Commissioner Gerken.
Thirty-nine percent of Lucas County voters supported Issue 3 while 63 percent said no.
“We need to not only address compassionate care for the chronically ill, we need to also remain vigilant in protecting direct democracy”, he said. Another October poll, from Bowling Green University, only polled “likely” voters, and that poll had Issue 3 at 44%.
“I can’t believe I voted “no” when it was finally on the ballot”, said Marty Dvorchak, 62, of the northern Cincinnati suburb of Fairfield. But he doesn’t like Ohio’s issue.
Voter Demi Francisco said everyone has a duty to vote.
“Whether they work out in your favor or not, you should still do what you think is right”.
Thirty percent of registered voters in the county, which includes Cleveland, voted in the November 2013 general election. Those lines would be in place for four years.
Husted said there was still time to drop off absentee ballots. Voted ballots can be delivered in person to boards of elections through the close of the polls Tuesday.
It is impossible, without exit polling (and I doubt Responsible Ohio will share their exit polling, assuming they even made the effort to find out why opponents voted the way they did) to know which of these several tactical and strategic blunders was primarily accountable for their embarrassing defeat. But the same poll showed voter support for legalized medical marijuana stands at 90 percent.
“Something is driving the voters”, she said. Zielenski says the possibility of legalization “does worry me”. Shearer described himself as a “military guy” who has never used marijuana.
Ohioans torpedoed a proposal to regulate marijuana use in the state, countering a big-money campaign that sought to legalize pot for medicinal and recreational uses.
Election sites opened their doors at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Turnout is expected to be low as early presidential politicking has largely overshadowed 2015 campaigns. It was an interesting initiative business model and worked well enough to actually make the ballot, which no other marijuana reform initiatives in the state have managed to do, but turned out to be self-defeating in the end. A few 1.3 million of the 149 million residents of those states are medical marijuana patients – less than 1 percent of the population, according to MPP. But opponents are placing their hopes in a separate measure aimed at nullifying the idea. “They want districts to be fair and the winners to be determined by the voters”.
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Issue 1, the redistricting measure, would establish a new system for drawing state legislative districts in the battleground state. It gives the minority party a powerful say on any new 10-year map designating Ohio’s 99 House and 33 Senate districts.
