When he loses in court as a criminal defendant or in a presidential election as a defeated incumbent, Donald Trump and his trained lackeys have a ready response: the system was rigged.
From muddying the waters in the ballot language to a full-blown press to confuse voters, the GOP is desperately trying to retain a crooked system The jury that found him liable for sexual assault and defaming his victim was rigged. The jury that found him guilty on 34 felony counts was rigged. Presiding judges, prosecuting attorneys, corroborating witnesses, damning evidence, unanimous verdicts. All rigged.
The latest collaborative scheme by the Republican secretary of state, the Republican majority on the Ohio Ballot Board and the Republican majority on the Ohio Supreme Court to turn a November ballot referendum on its head tops the GOP’s trickery last year to tank an abortion rights initiative. This year Republican leaders dropped all pretense of good faith in fashioning and approving the ballot language for the proposed anti-gerrymandering amendment they adamantly oppose.
The redistricting majority drew maps that unconstitutionally favored Republicans over Democrats and produced even bigger gerrymandered supermajorities in the Statehouse with locked in congressional dominance. LaRose, a reliable party line commission vote on the gerrymandered maps, drafted the wording on the anti-gerrymandering proposal, approved by the Republican ballot board majority, and largely upheld by the GOP majority on the state supreme court.
The ballot summary is worse. Dissenting Democratic Justice Jennifer Brunner called it “perhaps the most stunningly stilted ballot language that Ohio voters will have ever seen.” It manufactures alternative facts about citizen-powered redistricting to falsely suggest the anti-gerrymandering proposal is what it is not — “a new taxpayer-funded commission of appointees required to gerrymander the boundaries of state legislative and congressional districts.
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