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I'm Sayyujw Bajwani, founder of Women's Democracy Lab, sitting in for Farai Chidea.

There's more to voting than just going to the polls. It's also about mobilizing communities on the

issues that impact them

and what's on the ballots themselves.

This November, Ohioans voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana and abortion access.

Abortion is health care.

And abortion access is the law of the land in Ohio. That was Lauren Blauvelt, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, speaking to a crowd as news

dropped that Ohio voters had approved issue one, a constitutional amendment

guaranteeing the right to an abortion, along with issue two, which legalized recreational

marijuana for adults 21 and older to buy, grow, and possess. Both ballot measures in Ohio

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