Garboshnik on 1/11/2008 at 14:59
In Maryland there are only two:
Early Voting - Allows the legislature to set up early voting in the state. Sounds good to me.
Casino Measure - Legalizes some amount of slot machine gambling in the state. I would feel better about this if it was not a constitutional amendment, but it seems like a reasonable way to generate additional state revenue.
There are a few local bond issues for the city of Baltimore as well but nothing exciting. If anyone else is looking up ballot issues in their state (
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) this looks like a pretty good resource.
heywood on 1/11/2008 at 16:57
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Here in Massachusetts, we have an intiative on the ballot to completely repeal the income tax - which would, at least for the short term, basically destroy educational funding, among other things.
Don't worry too much. If the measure passes, the income tax is not likely to be repealed. And even if that happened, the result would be Prop 2 1/2 overrides across the state to make up for the loss of state education funding. You'd end up like NH with primary and secondary education paid for almost exclusively by property taxes. The state university system would probably take a huge hit though.
I don't think that MA has a particularly high tax burden, but I know that MA taxpayers are pretty well fed up with public employee unions and the amount of graft and patronage in state agencies. I don't know if they are angry enough to go for the nuclear option though. The real problem in MA is that the legislature is corrupt and there's no real opposition.
Zaphod on 4/11/2008 at 23:11
In Florida, we had only 1 that was even remotely interesting. Question #2 was to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Eat a bag of dicks, smallminders.
Matthew on 4/11/2008 at 23:21
Will those even be enforceable if someone takes it to the Supremes?
Turtle on 5/11/2008 at 03:01
Both of ours in Michigan are predicted to pass.
Yes on medical marijuana and yes on stem cell research.
Go, us!
Fafhrd on 5/11/2008 at 05:10
Based on the L.A. Times tracker thing, it looks like Prop. 8 might pass, which is fucking bullshit (54% right now, and I'm not sure if the counties that haven't reported yet are populous enough, or liberal enough, to knock it down at this point). 5 got destroyed, and 4 is an even split.
[edit]4 is now looking pretty good for "NO," 8 still has a gap I'm not happy with, but the gap is closing (maybe). Still only 10% in for L.A. for some reason.
Matthew on 5/11/2008 at 12:35
Will the results for such measures take a couple of days to process?
Starrfall on 5/11/2008 at 14:34
Probably. There's a bunch of uncounted mail-in ballots, and some precincts haven't reported yet. 1, 4, 8, and 11 are currently unresolved.
ignatios on 5/11/2008 at 15:58
fuck
fuck!
fucking fundies fuck
