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.”

  • Igloojoe@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      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.