Billionaire funding Ohio amendment threshold also backed Jan. 6 and election deniers

Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein, who has a history of supporting candidates who deny the results of the 2020 presidential election and groups that helped organize the Jan. 6 rally, has donated over $1 million to a PAC supporting the effort to require 60% of the vote to pass a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment in Ohio. A bipartisan group of five former attorneys general has joined more than 200 groups in opposition to the move, which would cut voters’ power relative to that of the state’s gerrymandered legislature. The state Senate has voted to put the matter on the August ballot, and the Ohio House needs 60 Republican votes to pass the bill out of that chamber.