Signatures from more than 850,000 Ohioans were filed with the Secretary of State on Thursday to put the Ohio Jobs and Growth Plan on the November statewide ballot.
The proposed constitutional amendment would authorize casinos in the downtown areas of Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo. It would directly create 20,000 new Ohio jobs; require at least $1 billion in private investment and produce $651 million in annual casino tax revenue – most distributed among the 88 counties, the state’s eight largest cities and every school district in Ohio.
The filing included signatures from all 88 Ohio counties. In 80 counties, the total number of signatures exceeded 5 percent of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, far surpassing the Constitutional requirement of 44 counties.
