{"id":127696,"date":"2020-02-01T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=127696"},"modified":"2020-02-01T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:23:13","slug":"ohio-a-g-rejects-election-reform-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/02\/01\/ohio-a-g-rejects-election-reform-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio A-G rejects election reform petition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office has rejected the summary language for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would make changes to Ohio\u2019s election laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 22, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition&nbsp;to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cThe Secure and Fair Elections Amendment,\u201d from the attorney representing the petitioning&nbsp;committee. The attorney general\u2019s role is to determine whether the petition summary is a fair and truthful representation of the proposed amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The summary was rejected for two reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The summary of the proposed constitutional amendment is longer than the proposed amendment itself.<\/li><li>The summary includes a paragraph of text that is not included in the proposed amendment.<\/li><li>\u201cFor these reasons, I am unable to certify the proposal,\u201d Attorney General Dave Yost said in the letter rejecting the petition.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The full text of the letter to petitioners and the petition can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDAxMzEuMTY0MjQ5NzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5vaGlvYXR0b3JuZXlnZW5lcmFsLmdvdi9QZXRpdGlvbnMifQ.wA0fPio6p-EK8xjImJAjNRuCu-7yZ5n5ClMlNCZhVh4\/br\/74558895034-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov\/Petitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office has rejected the summary language for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would make changes to Ohio\u2019s election laws. On January 22, the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office received a written petition&nbsp;to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled \u201cThe Secure and Fair Elections Amendment,\u201d from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 11:58:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}