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Attorney General Mike DeWine
School Prayer
Amendment Petition Rejected for Technical Deficiency
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today rejected the
petition for the proposed “The Amendment to Return Prayer to Our Public
Schools” because the petition contained a technical defect that
prevented the submission from being approved.
On June 15, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office received a written
petition from a group called Coalition to Return Prayer to Our Public
Schools seeking to amend the Ohio Constitution by adding “The Amendment
to Return Prayer to Our Public Schools.”
The submission was rejected because the individual part-petitions
signed by various individuals were not properly labeled to contain both
the text of a proposed amendment and separately a summary of that
amendment. By statute, such petitions must be properly labeled to
identify both the summary of the proposed amendment and the text of the
amendment.
In order for a proposed constitutional amendment to proceed, the full
text of the initiative, the summary, and signatures from at least 1,000
registered Ohio voters must be submitted to the Ohio Attorney General.
The Attorney General has 10 days to conduct an examination to determine
if the summary is a fair and truthful representation of the proposed
amendment.
The full text of today’s letter and of the submitted initiative
petition can be found atwww.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov/BallotInitiatives.
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