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Soros-Backed Reforms Fail in Ohio
A group of election reforms backed by liberal Daddy Warbucks George Soros has crashed and burned in Ohio, leaving Democrats unable to capitalize on a year's worth of complaints that the state's 2004 presidential vote was rigged. Voters soundly rejected the four Soros-backed proposals, which would have overhauled the way Ohio runs its elections. The initiatives would have opened absentee balloting to all voters, lowered the cap on individual campaign contributions and put boards, instead of elected officials, in charge of drawing legislative and congressional districts and overseeing the state's elections, according to the Associated Press. With 25 percent of the returns tallied, the AP said the absentee ballot question was trailing 61-to-39 percent; the campaign contribution cap was losing 64-to-36 percent; and redistricting and election oversight were both trailing 67-to-33 percent.
Story Continues Below A coalition of unions and other Democrat-leaning groups organized under the name Reform Ohio Now wanted to wrest control of elections from Republican state officeholders. Critics said the ballot measures would empower special interests and encourage fraudulent voting. According to Ohio's Journal News, three of RON's major donors are organizations funded by Soros.
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