Analysis: On Issue 1, Frank LaRose says 'there is no bad time to do a good thing.' Many beg to...

Somebody thought it would be a good idea to interrupt your summer fun with an election. In case you haven't heard.

And it is going on right now, as the early voting period for the August 8 special election began Tuesday.

That "somebody" was, in fact, the Republicans of the Ohio General Assembly and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the state's chief elections officer, who decided that August 8 would be the perfect time for Ohio to hold an election on a game-changing constitutional amendment.

A constitutional amendment that would overturn 111 years of precedent in Ohio.

Only months ago, LaRose and Ohio's Republican legislative supermajority were congratulating themselves for having done away with August elections in Ohio, in the wake of an oddball congressional primary in 2022 that drew a whopping 8% of Ohio voters to the polls.