{"id":116059,"date":"2019-04-08T06:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T11:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=116059"},"modified":"2019-04-08T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T11:42:40","slug":"yost-certifies-constitutional-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/04\/08\/yost-certifies-constitutional-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Yost certifies constitutional amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office has certified a summary of a petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution. The proposed amendment would change the way Ohio\u2019s Electoral College members vote in presidential elections. An alternative summary for the same proposed amendment was rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The attorney general’s role is to determine whether the summary is a fair and truthful representation of the proposed constitutional amendment. Petitioners have submitted two petitions with different summaries, each supported with the requisite 1,000 valid signatures from registered Ohio voters. This is an unusual tactic, and perhaps the first time it has been used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth summaries accurately restated the proposed amendment; but only the first is both fair and truthful,\u201d said Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. \u201cThe second summary fails to note the most important piece of information for the voter: that the amendment, if adopted, could require Ohio’s representatives in the Electoral College to vote for the winner of the national presidential popular vote rather than for the winner of Ohio\u2019s presidential popular vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first summary is certified; the second is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the summary language is certified by the attorney general\u2019s office and the initial signatures are verified by the county boards of elections, the Ohio Ballot Board must determine if the amendment contains a single issue or multiple issues. The petitioners must then collect signatures for each issue from registered voters in each of 44 of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties, equal to 5 percent of the total vote cast in the county for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial election. Total signatures collected statewide must also equal 10 percent of the total vote cast for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full text of letters to petitioners and the amendment petitions can be found at www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/Petitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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