Ohio Residents: State’s Review Of Anti-Fracking Ballot Initiative Violates Rights

(February 5, 2019, 1:37 PM EST) -- YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Residents who want to get an anti-fracking measure on the ballot sued the Ohio Secretary of State in federal court Feb. 1 seeking to enjoin Ohio’s ballot access scheme “to the extent it allows unconstitutional pre-enactment review of proposed ballot measures by election officials and the judiciary in violation of separation of powers and the people’s core political rights” (Susan Beiersdorfer, et al. v. Frank LaRose, et al., No. 19-260, N.D. Ohio)....

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