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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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[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Hm, personally, I'd say 80/20 split would be "overwhelming." Like, I never thought this would be controversial to say that 6% is not mindblowingly overwhelming. It's just a dumb word to use and shows the site's obvious left bias.

[-] ShortBoweledClown@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Considering it only take a 2/3 majority to remove the President from office, your split seems to be arbitrary and made in bad faith to minimize the results.

Also, it's 13.2%, not 6.6%.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never said it was some kind of objective measure, and bad faith? Wth? You asked me for my opinion so I gave it to you. Your baseline of "to remove the president" is also arbitrary. I would have loved for the vote to be overwhelming, I'm sorry to say that I don't find this result to be that. And you can't say it's a double digit win when "win" is 50%.

[-] Random_user@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

56-43 is a bit more than 6%, although I'm no mathematician

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

6% away from 50-50.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your concept of the math is wrong. A two-thirds majority, where twice as many people have one opinion versus the other, has only a 17% difference from 50/50. The problem with looking at it like that is you ignore half the spread between opinions and that becomes more pronounced the greater the margin. Having 30% more supporters on one side than the other ( the math: 56.6÷(100-56.6)) is pretty significant, if not overwhelming. I'd say it was more than okay, and Ohio's constitution says it's more than enough.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for trying to explain rather than saying I'm apparently commenting in bad faith.

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