I forgot about Ohio! If you're voting there, you had five statewide issues to vote on.

State Issue 1 would sell bonds "to finance, or assist in financing, public infrastructure capital improvements for local governments." Fair enough.

State Issue 2 would amend the Ohio Constitution to allow anyone to vote by mail thirty-five days before an election, for whatever reason. If you get a ballot mailed to you, but the county board of elections hasn't received it by election day, you can cast a provisional ballot, just in case.

State Issue 3 would amend the Ohio Constitution to impose limits on political contributions, to both candidates and Political Action Committees (PACs). It would, among other things:

• Limit spending by individuals to $25,000 for all candidates and PACs per year;
• Prohibit candidates from soliciting funds from PACs, soliciting contributions from committees supporting or opposing ballot issues, or appearing in advertising regarding a state ballot issue;
• Permit labor unions to donate funds to candidates, these funds coming from membership dues;
• Prohibit candidates from receiving funds from PACs.

State Issue 4 would amend the Ohio Constitution to alter the redistricting procedure in Ohio. Under the proposed procedure, a commission of five people -- composed of two sitting judges and three people appointed by the first two people or chosen by lot -- would redistribute state representatives. But this provision is scary: "the commission may consider whether to alter a plan to preserve communities of interest based on geography, economics, or race, so long as the reconfiguration does not result in a competitiveness number that is more than two points lower for a congressional plan and four points lower for a general assembly plan." The "competitiveness number" for a district attempts to keep the district roughly balanced between Republicans and Democrats. If you ask me, I think districts should be drawn based on geography alone.

State Issue 5 is a response to lots of controversy from the 2004 presidential election, in which Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell -- a staunch Republican -- may have deliberately caused voting irregularities (such as the delivery of too few election machines to certain districts or failure to count some ballots) in order to get Bush to win in Ohio. Issue 5 would amend the Ohio Constitution to eliminate the Secretary of State's control over elections and create a nine-member board (four appointed by the governor, four by members of the General Assembly who are not of the same party as the person being appointed, and one by unanimous vote of the justices of the Ohio Supreme Court). Issue 5 would also require the state to hire an administrative director to oversee state elections.

Currently, with two-thirds of the votes in, all four of the constitutional amendments were failing two to one, according to The New York Times.