Updated: Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced today that the SB5 referendum collected 915,456 valid signatures, certifying that the group more than surpassed the necessary 231,147 number for the issue to appear on the ballot. According to the Dayton Daily News, “backers of the referendum had to collect signatures in 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties equal to 3 percent of the the votes in the 2010 governor’s race. They met the 3 percent requirement in all 88 counties.”
Next up: Forming ballot language. — Grzegorek
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The great state government arm wrestle between state employees and Governor John Kasich continues to grind on. According to the people pushing back against Senate Bill 5 — the legislation that would basically knee-cap collective bargaining — the stakes are survival itself.
This article appears in Jul 20-26, 2011.
Congratulations to the people at We Are Ohio!
Shoutout to all the people that was a part of this project’s success…. DJ LOCNEZ/WESTWATER we put together official movements…
There is no doubt that enough signatures will be confirmed valid to put SB 5 on the ballot. Normally you want to get about 50 percent over. I don’t know of any effort that gets 5.6 times the number of signatures needed that failed to make the ballot. It’s a literal impossibility unless the effort is completely fraudulent. This one wasn’t. By the way “according to the Plain Dealer”? You can get this from the horse’s mouth, not its ass.