COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) — The group behind the only statewide ballot issue this November has brought a lawsuit against the Ohio Ballot Board to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Citizens Not Politicians put a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot, called Issue 1, to take elected officials out of the redistricting process. On Friday, the Ohio Ballot Board passed the language voters will be seeing on their ballots. The group called the language that was passed “egregious,” and immediately decided to file a lawsuit.
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“This Court’s intervention is needed to ensure that Ohio voters are provided with the truthful and impartial ballot title and ballot language required by law so that they can exercise their right to determine for themselves whether to amend the Ohio Constitution,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit also called the language adopted on Friday the “most biased, inaccurate and unconditional ballot language ever adopted by the Ohio Ballot Board.”