Ohio Republicans Refuse To Accept Election Results, Claim Abortion Bans Will Remain

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.”

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.

Don’t you have some sort of neutral House Constable with powers to kick out these idiots in cases like this?

No, we have an impartial judiciary system that… oh wait…

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.

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.

“No election can overturn our god given right to ignore your rights”

Republicans

The Republicans think they have a right to rule us without our consent. Sooner or later the military may have to get involved.

Most military members are actually conservative. If we get to that point we’re in big trouble.

It’s a wild card, I’m not saying otherwise. The alternative though, could very well be a right wing authoritarian take over. My hope is enough of these guys saw Iraq or Afghanistan to know what it would look like.

The JCoS may be largely conservative but we have to hope they love America enough to fight for it in its intended form as a democracy rather than the fascist ethnostate the republicans want

Why do you think Tuberville is holding 400+ appointments hostage until the GOP likely takes the senate back?

It’s part of project 2025 to have insurrectionists in the millitary who would support a theocratic coup

Conservative or not, those of us who served, and didn’t just sit behind a desk, know the oath we took. I think you would be surprised how many service members hold that shit in higher regard than a politician’s butthurt response to election results.

The military is full of poor people. What do think will happen if you start turning them on their own families?

Not saying youre wrong but makes as much sense as your “actually conservative” theory.

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!

It’s been 6 hours. You might wait for the process to unfold.

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.

Based on what? This wouldn’t be the first time Republicans ignored a constitutional amendment and got away with it.

Exactly.

These chucklefucks got elected on conservative social repression. Now that it’s been rejected, this is a desperate plea to their base not to primary them out next term.

Please proceed.

You just got pounded at the polls over this issue. Please keep the rage levels high.

They will proceed, that’s the whole idea: proceed until they are stopped.

“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

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….

Something something George Soros

Soros is an American citizen, not that this would stop them.

I mean foreign influence was the story of 2016. It was comicly obvious.

I have some shit to say about Trump and Russian influence. Think they want to have that conversation?

They would say:

"Now, if your states blue

And you don’t know where to go to

Why don’t you go where fascist sits

Putin on the Ritz"

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.

Maybe not overwhelming, but it didn’t just squeak by either. For a historically controversial topic such as this 6.6 percent is substantial.

56.6% - 43.4% = 13.2%. What kind of math are you doing to get 6.6%?

It’s 6.6% away from an even split.

I just saw how far above 50% it was since that’s the mark you have to clear. I’ve always thought of elections and other votes that way. Not sure why. Never thought about it. Sure, using the more accurate 13.2% would have proven the point I was making even better, but I didn’t really think that far ahead. I just wanted to give the context that controversial issues trend more toward 50/50 so passing with a 56.6 vote is nothing to turn your nose at. But to answer your question, I subtracted 50 from 56.6.

Honestly, I got defensive and wouldn’t have written any of this if you hadn’t said “what kind of math are you doing” like it wasn’t t obvious what I did. But I guess it gave myself and others the opportunity to understand why we use the total percent and not how far above 50.

56.6 is more than 30% more than 43.4. ie, 30% more people voted yes than voted no. that’s at the very least a substantial margin.

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

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%.

In America, that’s overwhelming. Compare it to recent president election results.

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.

But this is the sort of reason the USSC was stacked the way it was.

As right-wing as they are, they’ve made a few good calls.

Here go one:

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1200906844/supreme-court-alabama-voting-case

I’m guessing any Ohio Republican that gets this case in front of this court would have his ass handed to him.

By a 5-4 margin, which is terrifying when you realize 44% of the court is totally cool with racist gerrymandering

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