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Florida Senate aims to tighten effort to put constitutional amendments on the ballot
Read full article: Florida Senate aims to tighten effort to put constitutional amendments on the ballotA day after the Florida House started moving forward with its version of the plan, the Senate on Friday released a wide-ranging bill that would add restrictions to the state’s ballot initiative process.
Florida lawmakers want to make constitutional amendments harder to pass
Read full article: Florida lawmakers want to make constitutional amendments harder to passShould it be harder for a ballot initiative to pass in Florida?Right now for an amendment to be enshrined in the Florida Constitution, it needs to be approved by 60% of the state’s voters. But Florida lawmakers are proposing to increase that threshold to 66.67%. To do that, they’d need to ask voters via a ballot initiative.