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For me it's not just about 60%, it's about the increase in the number of counties you need petitions from.
They're not just making it harder to pass things, they're making it harder to even propose things as citizens, and that's just unacceptable.
You need voters from each county right? That gives a disproportionate amount of power to people in counties like Vinton, who only have less than 13,000 people.
Yes, it makes it extremely difficult for anyone, especially grassroots movements as they'd need to find people in every county, and then voters in those smaller counties like you say, would have disproportionate power.
For all intents and purposes, if this passes, ballot initiatives are effectively dead in Ohio indefinitely.