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Attorney General Mike DeWine
Constitutional
Amendment Petitions on Drug Crime Penalties Certified
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today certified a
petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution regarding
penalties associated with drug crimes.
On December 1, 2017, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office received a
written petition to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled "The
Neighborhood Safety, Drug Treatment, and Rehabilitation Amendment" from
legal counsel for the petitioning committee called Ohio Safe and
Healthy Communities Campaign. The petitions were both certified today
as containing both the necessary 1,000 valid signatures from registered
Ohio voters and a “fair and truthful” summary of the proposed
amendment.
“Without passing upon the advisability of the approval or rejection of
the measure to be referred, but pursuant to the duties imposed upon the
Attorney General’s Office […] I hereby certify that the summary is a
fair and truthful statement of the proposed law,” Attorney General
DeWine stated in the certification letter for each petition.
Once the summary language and initial signatures are certified, the
Ohio Ballot Board must determine if the amendments each contain a
single issue or multiple issues. The petitioners must then collect
signatures for each issue from registered voters in each of 44 of
Ohio’s 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.
The full text of today’s letters and the amendment petitions submitted
can be found at www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov/Petitions.
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