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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

PASIFIKA Part II-Deep Sea Mining

Deep sea mining is a growing subfield of experimental seabed mining that involves the retrieval of minerals and deposits from the ocean floor found …

PASIFIKA Part II-Deep Sea Mining

Direct Democracy—and Abortion Rights—Win in Ohio – Mother Jones

A Republican-driven effort to make it harder to amend the Ohio constitution failed in a special election on Tuesday. The defeated measure, known as Issue 1, would have effectively torpedoed the state’s direct democracy process, raising the vote threshold required to amend the state constitution from a simple majority to 60 percent, and requiring the supporters of would-be amendments to gather signatures from all 88 counties in Ohio, rather than half of them. With 37 percent of the vote counted when the Associated Press called the election, 61 percent of voters had rejected it…   Source: Direct Democracy—and Abortion Rights—Win in Ohio – Mother Jones

Ohio Rejects Issue 1, Constitutional Change Intended to Thwart Abortion Movement – The New York Times

Ohio voters rejected a bid to make it harder to amend the State Constitution on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, a significant victory for abortion-rights supporters trying to stop the Republican-controlled State Legislature from severely restricting the procedure.

The abortion question turned what would normally be a sleepy summer election in an off year into a highly visible dogfight that took on national importance and drew an uncharacteristically high number of Ohio voters for an August election.

Initial results showed the measure losing by a roughly 3 to 2 margin. The total vote —— surpassed the roughly 1.6 million votes recorded in the state’s last primary election in May 2022, when candidates for both governor and the state’s 15 House seats were on the ballot.

(Me: When gerrymandering does not count… Ohio is blue!)