Ohio Supreme Court Keeps Toledo City Initiative Off the Ballot

On September 21, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a proposed initiative, amending the city charter of Toledo, should not be on the ballot, even though it had enough valid signatures. State ex rel Twitchell v Saferin, 2018-Ohio-3829. Four of the seven members of the Court write separately. It is clear that the Ohio law, governing procedures to use the initiative process to amend a city charter, are unclear and contradictory. The initiative had to do with environmental protection for Lake Erie. Here is the decision.


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Ohio Supreme Court Keeps Toledo City Initiative Off the Ballot — 3 Comments

  1. RD — one more pre-skooool juvenile parrot troll —

    good only for copying the postings of other folks.

    RW continues to collect the fake names and email addresses of such trolls.

  2. How many State regimes permit local regimes to be fully/partly independent empires for election law purposes ???

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