I live in a dense neighborhood close to Cleveland, and I can see “Vote no on issue 1” signs all over. I figured a “no” turn out was in the bag. But then I drove through some more rural areas of OH, and there are “vote yes” signs everywhere. Now I’m worried. How dumb can these people be? I mean dumber than voting for trump twice?!

I am really hoping this gets voted NO in a landslide. This is the best opportunity for the sane people of this state to signal how fucking done we are with right-wing extremist bullshit.

Democrats have been losing statewide elections because they have been churning out lackluster candidates and confusing messaging. But this election is as simple as it gets. One issue to vote on, all you have to do is show up. If we can't get this done, we are firmly in the shithole red state category.

I tried to go vote early yesterday, the board of elections in my county was closed when I went at 2pm even though they're supposed to be open until 3pm. I'll try to go again today and if not I'll have to go election day.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The early signs of a highly motivated electorate follows robust turnout in a handful of other states where voters have affirmed abortion rights after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade a little over a year ago.

Voters have been waiting in long lines and sometimes for over an hour at many early polling places, even as heat waves have swept the Midwest and the rest of the country this summer.

Tom Simmons of Clintonville, just north of the capital, Columbus, stood in line on a sunny Thursday morning and said he planned on voting in favor of Issue 1.

The polarizing battle over abortion in the state, with the constitutional amendment seeking to protect reproductive rights before voters in the fall, has driven the narrative for the campaigns supporting and opposing Issue 1.

Voters rejected, by 59%, a proposed amendment to the state constitution to declare that it does not grant a right to abortion, which would have allowed lawmakers to greatly restrict or ban it.

Associated Press writers Chad Day in Washington, Christine Fernando in Chicago and John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, and researcher Ryan Dubicki in New York contributed to this report.

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I am overseas and got the notification of this special election on the last day I could request a ballot. I didn't know what it was about and didn't manage to request in time. I see now that it's about raising the threshold from 50 to 60% to pass citizen amendments to the constitution, which would impact the upcoming measure on the ballot in November. While I'm disappointed I won't be able to vote in the special election, I sure as hell will cast in November.