The Ohio Issue 1 single ballot measure referendum, a Republican effort to sandbag a scheduled November ballot measure to decide to amend the state constitution to establish a right to abortion by increasing the threshold for one to pass, has been defeated, Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman projects. The final margin for no will likely be massive as the Columbus Dispatch has it at 70.33 percent no and 29.67 percent yes as of this printing. So really the Ohio Republicans wasted a shit ton of taxpayer money to hold an August referendum for the sole purpose of making participatory democracy more difficult, focused specifically on abortion rights, and failed miserably.