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Ohio Voter Bill of Rights Amendment (2015)

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A Ohio Voter Bill of Rights Amendment was not on the November 3, 2015 ballot in Ohio as an initiated constitutional amendment. If approved by voters, the measure would have done the following:[1]

  • Repealed provisions that remove electors from the voter rolls if they fail to vote for four consecutive years
  • Brought the Ohio Constitution into compliance with the National Voter Registration Act, which allows electors to be removed from the voter rolls upon failure to vote at all in any four year election cycle that includes two federal elections, followed by action taken by the state to communicate with the voter

Text of measure

The summary and full text of the measure is available here.[1]

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Ohio

Petitioners needed to submit 1,000 signatures with the initial petition filing. If the initiative's filing was approved, petitioners would have then needed to collect 305,591 signatures by July 1, 2015, to get the initiative placed on the November 2015 ballot.

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