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Ohio Republicans approve misleading ballot language to favor gerrymandering
(www.theguardian.com)
Of course they do. Cheating is the only way they'll win anything.
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Standard Operating Procedure. Cheat the vote.
That's not even just biased language, that's just lying. There really should be personal consequences for flouting ~~flaunting~~ your duty to that extent. It incentivizes just trying any ridiculous scheme, safe in the knowledge that the worst possible result is just being told to try again.
*flouting
I hate living in a red state.
I'm in one of the deepest red. We'll need local people with deep local contacts to be good insurgents if the time comes.
Dumb question I'm too lazy to Google - who decides the wording for these questions? It seems like it's always Republicans, no matter who is proposing the question
Republicans control a lot of state government positions. It's part of their whole strategy.
In Ohio it is Republicans all the way down.
It's Democrats in blue states, but blue states haven't need urgent ballot measures about basic rights recently, so all the news stories are about red states.
Here's a story about a California Democrat changing the name of a ballot question, except instead of lying they changed it from the "Protect Kids of California Act" to the more accurate "Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth".