Days after Ohio voters passed Issue 1 and codified abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution, Republicans are not accepting the election results.
In a new, unhinged press release issued by the Ohio House Republican Committee, GOP members rant that “foreign billionaires” impacted the election results and call the results tainted by so-called “foreign interference.” It is unclear what they are referring to.
Ohio voters overwhelmingly voted ‘Yes’ on Issue 1 by a margin of 56.6% to 43.4%.
The press release further argues that the results of the election do not invalidate a 6-week abortion ban previously passed by the Ohio Legislature and that “no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”
I’m sure some of their Republican voters will be thrilled to hear that…
Oh by the way, I thought the GOP were about state rights?
Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. All that has ever mattered is ingroup loyalty. They think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.
Please stop asking these kind of questions, even sarcastically.
Why do they hate freedom and democracy so much?
Freedom for me, not for thee.
Yes someone posted this on Lemmy so now I can say what I want…
….maybe someone needs to revoke their license to living?
If they want to rule like kings than they can be treated as such
It’s really funny when they whine about outside money. I didn’t see the GOP up in arms as Citizens United passed, I don’t see them upset when they SuperPACs give money to their campaigns so it seems they only care when it affects them, big fucking shocker there….
What type of foreign interference gives a flying fuck about Ohio specifically having abortions? It’s such an unhinged thing to think foreigners would care about. But these same foreign bodies just snoozed through Ohio going mostly Red the past 6ish years?
Something something George Soros
No surprises here. In 2024 citizens just need to take away their majorities in the statehouse. They think it’s impossible, but the recent numbers don’t lie. They are practically begging for that result.
Laws for thee, none for me my Goodman.
Please proceed.
You just got pounded at the polls over this issue. Please keep the rage levels high.
“Let your enemy continue to fuck themselves in the ass.”
~ Sun Tsu (paraphrased)
“We have not even begun to fuck ourselves!”
-Winston Churchill, via Last Week Tonight
They will proceed, that’s the whole idea: proceed until they are stopped.
I get that he misspoke but it does seem illustrative of the whole issue. Fetuses don’t have the rights we’re born with because they haven’t been born.
WTF America. Don’t you have some sort of neutral House Constable with powers to kick out these idiots in cases like this? How can they just ignore official results without consequence?
It sounds like there needs to be a bottom-to-top reform of the law where every ‘norm’ that used to be assumed, gets new enforceable law to back it up.
Articles like this are just to make republican voters stop crying. Give them hope while also selling a news article.
Abortion rights will go in effect, and the election results will stay.
There is no neutral role, everything can be made partisan.
If the people don’t like the actions of an elected official, they can either try to vote them out in the next election or try to force a recall and replace them.
“No election can overturn our god given right to ignore your rights”
- Republicans
The federal Constitution prevents any state from recalling a member of congress, so your federal reps can not be recalled legally. They would have to be expelled from within the congress, you get to vote and thats it.
Shut up, libtard! throws bible /s
The Republicans think they have a right to rule us without our consent. Sooner or later the military may have to get involved.
Our only recourse is the voters. You see how well that is going.
Don’t shrug your shoulders and say “I guess we’ll wait until the next election.” They have shown what they think of election results.
Take note of how the French do things and fucking protest!
Pay attention, people. Recognize who you need to vote for in 2024 to preserve the rights that YOU HAVE ALREADY VOTED FOR…
Pay attention people…you have been given a 2nd Amendment right by founders who told you how to water a tree
They already set the stage to ignore the election results next year. Look at how many STILL think the 2020 election results were stolen. They’re either enacting laws to overturn the future results they didn’t like or commandeer the offices that handle elections to ignore them.
This time next year will be a very dangerous time for the United States. Even if every sane Republican voter, who recognizes the dangers proposed, votes for a Democrat, it may not even matter. I’m not looking forward to it…
Yeah, I don’t think most people truly grok how pivotal this is going to be. Yeah, they may say the whole “this is the most important election of your life” like they say every time (and it has been every time, unfortunately), but I don’t know how many people truly understand what’s coming.
That’s why they haven’t stopped saying it about 2020. Repeat a lie enough and it becomes true…
Nah. It’s hard to ignore an election in the US because the one thing Americans hate is feeling impotent.
Yes they will flex on you and tell you to vote harder
I would not call 56.6% vs 43.4% “overwhelming,” but okay.
Yeah, it’s a slim majority. I want it to be overwhelming, but let’s not distort the facts.
That is not a slim majority.
A double digit win? What would you consider overwhelming?
Hm, personally, I’d say 80/20 split would be “overwhelming.” Like, I never thought this would be controversial to say that 6% is not mindblowingly overwhelming. It’s just a dumb word to use and shows the site’s obvious left bias.
56-43 is a bit more than 6%, although I’m no mathematician
6% away from 50-50.
Your concept of the math is wrong. A two-thirds majority, where twice as many people have one opinion versus the other, has only a 17% difference from 50/50. The problem with looking at it like that is you ignore half the spread between opinions and that becomes more pronounced the greater the margin. Having 30% more supporters on one side than the other ( the math: 56.6÷(100-56.6)) is pretty significant, if not overwhelming. I’d say it was more than okay, and Ohio’s constitution says it’s more than enough.
Thanks for trying to explain rather than saying I’m apparently commenting in bad faith.
Considering it only take a 2/3 majority to remove the President from office, your split seems to be arbitrary and made in bad faith to minimize the results.
Also, it’s 13.2%, not 6.6%.
I never said it was some kind of objective measure, and bad faith? Wth? You asked me for my opinion so I gave it to you. Your baseline of “to remove the president” is also arbitrary. I would have loved for the vote to be overwhelming, I’m sorry to say that I don’t find this result to be that. And you can’t say it’s a double digit win when “win” is 50%.
I am sickiof big government Republicans
Supreme court here we come… oh no…
Issues of State law go to the State supreme court.
Sometimes the Federal court butts in, but those cases are rare.
There is no such thing as a god-given right.
I’m pretty sure after writing his Bible, Jesus spent several weeks consulting at Wharton really locking down the supply side theory.
What are you going to do about them, Ohioans?
