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Ohio Republicans Refuse To Accept Election Results, Claim Abortion Bans Will Remain (www.meidastouch.com)

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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."

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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pay attention, people. Recognize who you need to vote for in 2024 to preserve the rights that YOU HAVE ALREADY VOTED FOR..

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They already set the stage to ignore the election results next year. Look at how many STILL think the 2020 election results were stolen. They're either enacting laws to overturn the future results they didn't like or commandeer the offices that handle elections to ignore them.

This time next year will be a very dangerous time for the United States. Even if every sane Republican voter, who recognizes the dangers proposed, votes for a Democrat, it may not even matter. I'm not looking forward to it...

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't think most people truly grok how pivotal this is going to be. Yeah, they may say the whole "this is the most important election of your life" like they say every time (and it has been every time, unfortunately), but I don't know how many people truly understand what's coming.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's why they haven't stopped saying it about 2020. Repeat a lie enough and it becomes true...

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. It's hard to ignore an election in the US because the one thing Americans hate is feeling impotent.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mmmmm, if preserving your "democracy"(don't laugh!) means having to "choose" between two genociders(lmao), then I'd rather your country fell instead. Put up someone who's actually against fossil fuels, actually against the killer cops in our society, and actually against the exponentially-expanding military-industrial complex, then we can talk. Not a second beforehand; 'cause on David if y'all put up Genocide Joe "I'm gonna tell Charlamagne the God he's not Black if he's not for me" Biden again, I'll be laughing as I withhold.

Matter of fact? Democrats don't even get to talk about the potential of getting my vote until the RICO charges against the Stop Cop City activists get dropped. If it never happens, then fuck y'all, die slow and nameless.