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Attorney General Mike DeWine
Petitions for
Constitutional Amendments Certified
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today certified two
petitions for proposed amendments to the Ohio Constitution.
On November 17, 2017, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office received two
written petitions to amend the Ohio Constitution, entitled "The
Initiative and Referendum Amendment for Counties and Townships" and
"The Ohio Community Rights Amendment," from a petitioning committee
called Ohio Community Rights. 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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