KIRTLAND HILLS, Ohio (WJW) — Organizers of an effort to abolish all property tax in Ohio revealed on Thursday that they are short of the number of voter signatures they need to get the question on November’s ballot and less than halfway to their ultimate goal.
The Committee to Abolish Property Tax in Ohio needs more than 413,000 signatures from at least half of Ohio’s 88 counties by July 1.
Inside the push to abolish property taxes in Ohio
Speaking from a replica of the presidential oval office on Thursday, Brian Massie, a co-chairman of the committee, for the first time revealed the current number of signatures stands at 305,000.
The group has set as its ultimate goal a desire to collect 620,000 signatures but with a little more than 60 days left before the petitions have to be turned in to the Secretary of State they are at less than half of that…