In July, the overwhelmingly Republican Ohio legislature passed, and Governor John Kasich signed into law, a draconian new voting bill, HB 194, aka the Voter Suppression Act. It contained hundreds of provisions designed to make voting harder, voters less informed, and ballots less likely to count.
A number of groups, including the state Democratic Party, came together as Fair Elections Ohio to gather signatures to put a repeal on the ballot. They need 231,247 valid signatures by today. And today they turned in 318,460 signatures to the Secretary of State's office — gathered in a mere six weeks.