Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits ranked choice voting in Ohio.

Highlights:

• Prohibits ranked choice voting in Ohio and punishes cities and villages that adopt ranked-choice voting in their local elections by stripping them of a key source of state funding called the Local Government Fund (This fund directs around $500 million to local governments annually) (Sec. 1).

• Defines ranked-choice voting” as the process that involves having voters rank political candidates in their order of preference, and if no candidates get a majority of votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are reallocated to the other candidates, and specifies that this continues until someone wins a majority of votes (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 2).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits ranked choice voting in Ohio.

Highlights:

• Prohibits ranked choice voting in Ohio and punishes cities and villages that adopt ranked-choice voting in their local elections by stripping them of a key source of state funding called the Local Government Fund (This fund directs around $500 million to local governments annually) (Sec. 1).

• Defines ranked-choice voting” as the process that involves having voters rank political candidates in their order of preference, and if no candidates get a majority of votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are reallocated to the other candidates, and specifies that this continues until someone wins a majority of votes (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 2).

Full Bill Text