Should Florida constitutional amendments require 66.67% to pass? Republicans make the push

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Should Florida constitutional amendments require 66.67% to pass? Republicans make the push
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Of the 23 amendments approved since the 2012 election, nearly half didn’t reach the suggested higher threshold.

Of the 23 amendments approved since the 2012 election, nearly half didn’t reach that higher threshold.

“1.4 million Florida citizens would still be facing a lifetime ban on voting if this proposal was in place five years ago,” said Neil Volz, deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which spearheaded the successful 2018 Amendment 4 campaign to restore voting rights. While 2024 is also a presidential election year, thus likely to generate high turnout, if the amendment does fail, the barrier of getting it passed with an even higher threshold would be harder to hurdle.

“I can’t live with allowing it to be 50% to keep and bear arms, the right to free speech, the right to the free exercise of religion,” he said. “I’d like to see this out by the time I see this on the floor, because that just makes me very concerned that they can just strip out all of our rights.” Roth attributes that belief to Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson – who he called his"new hero" along side Jesus,"his old hero." Peterson is the self-proclaimed “professor against political correctness” whose statements on women, masculinity and gender identity“After all, when things go bad, you could go bankrupt or you could die,” he said.

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