State ex rel. Ohio Roundtable, Inc. v. Taft

Relators claim that they are entitled to the requested extraordinary relief in mandamus pursuant to Section lg, Article II and Section 1, Article XVI of the Ohio Constitution. However, relators are not entitled to the requested relief because they failed to comply with the constitutional time requirement for bringing an action to challenge the ballot language of a proposed constitutional amendment.

Section lg, Article II of the Ohio Constitution provides:

*644“ * * * The secretary of state shall cause to be placed upon the ballots, the ballot language for any such law, or proposed law, or proposed…