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Gerrymandered Ohio Republican lawmakers are already scheming to attack voters over election results (ohiocapitaljournal.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Ohio voters just took firm positions on abortion and reproductive rights and adult-use recreational marijuana Tuesday, but gerrymandered Ohio lawmakers are already planning to flout, ignore, challenge, and abuse the voters’ wishes. This is what gerrymandering brings. This is why it’s a fundamental poison in the lifeblood of our republic.

Mere hours after Ohio voters passed the Issue 1 reproductive rights amendment with 56.62%, according to unofficial results, and the Issue 2 recreational marijuana law with 57% (both getting nearly 2.2 million votes), Ohio Republican legislative leaders signaled they would not respect the will of the people.

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[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 48 points 1 year ago

Or when Florida passed an anti gerrymandering law and the governor just ignored the state Congress and resubmitted the illegal maps

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Oh did Florida also do it? Ohio’s illegal maps were struck down but they just sent the same ones until time ran out

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

Yep, for a while now actually. DeSantis just kind of... Ignored the map drawn according to the law and resubmitted the old one. And the sunshine law that requires everything that passes over a public officials desk to be made public, including meeting records and emails

I thought calling Republicans fascist was a little hyperbolic, or at least premature... But then I saw DeSantis blatantly ignore the law, fire elected officials for dutifully fulfilling campaign promises (specifically, by adopting a rehabilitation first stance on crime, which was showing great results), form an extra legal panel to push "anti woke" policies in schools, and gave police the right to take children they suspect might be brought out of state for gender affirming care (obviously not cis gender affirming care like prosthetic boots for men insecure about their height while running for president). Then there's the book burnings, unconstituional laws, attempting to impose government censorship on Disney, and of course multiple fun flavors of voter suppression

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

In all fairness his drag queen high heel boots made him to tall to read the law. He's such a Bitchy queen.

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