State ex rel. Riffe v. Brown

The issue presented, is-whether Sections-1-, 2, 3 and 4 of Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 125, pertaining to voting procedures, take immediate.effect on are *151effective on August 30, 1977, 90 days after the filing of the Act with the Secretary of State.

Section 1 of Article II of the Ohio Constitution expressly states that “the people reserve to themselves the power to propose to the general assembly laws and amendments to the constitution, and' to adopt or reject the same at the polls on a referendum vote as hereinafter provided. They [the people] also reserve the power to adopt or reject…