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Progressives on Tuesday night lauded Ohio after Buckeye State voters decisively rejected an effort to raise the threshold for amending the state’s constitution ahead of a November referendum that would guarantee reproductive rights in the state’s constitution.

Ohio Issue 1 would have raised the threshold for passing constitutional amendments from a simple majority (50 percent plus 1) to 60 percent.

“Ohio Issue 1 defeated!” legal scholar Laurence Tribe wrote on his social media account. “The pro-democracy forces won!! ...