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Pandemic hinders citizen-driven ballot initiatives
By Jim Provance - The Blade, Toledo, Ohio (TNS)
COLUMBUS The mad ballot rush last year to get voters to etch a higher minimum wage, an early voting calendar, and stricter state legislative term limits into the Ohio Constitution ran head-long into a coronavirus wall.
So did an effort to force a bill mandating background checks for nearly all gun sales into the laps of a reluctant Republican-controlled General Assembly.
The question now is whether the atmosphere has changed enough for citizen-driven democracy to venture back out into the streets in search of registered voters who are still being told to limit their outside contacts. It can be tough to get a signature on paper from a distance of six feet.