Analysis: Ohio GOP's re-write of abortion rights ballot language is unlikely to make a difference...

In the Aug. 8 special election, Frank LaRose, Ohio's Republican secretary of state, was told in no uncertain terms that voters had no use for his plan to raise the bar for passing constitutional amendments to 60%.

Issue 1 failed miserably; and was clearly aimed at making it harder for abortion rights advocates to pass the reproductive rights amendment on the November ballot, which would write access to abortion into the Ohio Constitution.

Ohio voters came out in droves to vote down the 60% rule.

LaRose was left with egg on his face.

But the secretary of state/U.S. Senate candidate wasn't done.

Now, the Republican majority of his five-member Ohio Ballot Board — chaired by LaRose and tasked with the job of approving ballot language — stands accused of trying to stack the deck against the abortion rights amendment by inserting what abortion rights groups call misleading, inaccurate and inflammatory language into what should be a simple statement of fact.