Ohio Strip Club Defenders Submit More Signatures
An additional 230,000 petition signatures were submitted by a coalition just before the final deadline to put an initiative on the November ballot to repeal the state’s new restrictions on strip clubs.
In September, 382,500 signatures were submitted, but two-thirds of them were ruled invalid. The coalition had an additional 10 days to get enough valid signatures to total 241,366 in order to force a statewide vote on the issue. The latest signatures will be reviewed for validity.
The new law forces strip clubs to close at midnight and increases penalties for touching dancers.