Ohio ballot initiatives

Ohio ballot initiatives are made possible by:

By an amendment to the constitution of Ohio adopted September 3, 1912, the legislative power was expressly declared to be vested not only in the Senate and House of Representatives of the State, constituting the General Assembly, but in the people in whom a right was reserved by way of referendum to approve or disapprove by popular vote any law enacted by the General Assembly. And by other constitutional provisions the machinery to carry out the referendum was created.

Ohio ex rel. Davis v. Hildebrant, 241 U.S. 565, 566, 36 S. Ct. 708, 709 (1916).