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State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:08 pm
by Isgrimnur
Texas
- Establishes a right to farming, ranching, timber production, horticulture, and wildlife management in the state constitution
- Allow local governments to exempt child-care facilities from property taxes
- Prohibit a wealth or net worth tax
- Increase homestead tax exemption to $100,000 and increase state funding for public education
- Renames the National Research University Fund to the Texas University Fund and establishes an ongoing revenue source from the accrued interest of the economic stabilization fund
- Creates the Texas Water Fund to finance water projects
- Creates the Texas Energy Fund and authorizes funding to modernize electric generation facilities
- Creates the Texas Broadband Infrastructure Fund to finance high-speed broadband access
- Authorizes the state legislature to make cost-of-living adjustments or other benefit enhancements to eligible annuitants of the teacher retirement system
- Authorizes an ad valorem tax exemption on equipment and inventory manufactured by medical or biomedical companies
- Authorizes the state legislature to permit conservation and reclamation districts in El Paso County to allow the county to issue bonds to fund parks and recreational facilities
- Abolishes the Galveston County treasurer
- Increases the mandatory retirement age for state judges from 75 to 79
- Creates the Centennial Parks Conservation Fund
I voted YES on 5, 9-11, and 14
I expect to be on the losing end of all of them except #9.
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:15 pm
by hitbyambulance
nothing on the state ballot in WA. just a Seattle housing levy that promises to boost property taxes again... (also, my choices for City Council candidate are both extremely poor. i was not excited in voting this election.)
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:27 pm
by Daveman
Nothing here either but I did my part to vote out the local State Senator MAGAt. Sadly we're on the fringe of an increasingly red southern part of NJ so I'm not too hopeful.
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:34 pm
by Octavious
We didn't have anything in NJ. Lame.
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:52 pm
by malchior
Octavious wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:34 pm
We didn't have anything in NJ. Lame.
NJ doesn't tend to ask voters anything because we don't matter. We'll pretty much elect whoever they choose to put on the party line anyway. /s
Mostly joking! We occasionally get asked to mortgage the future but they haven't done that for a few years now.
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:07 pm
by malchior
Looks like...*checks notes*...oh really...Ohio voters tonight voted to create a state right to abortion in their constitution. Mike DeWine talked last week about how "radical" it was and how it had no chance of passing. I await all the efforts to ignore the result.
Ohio voters said “yes” to enshrining the right to an abortion in the state constitution, the Associated Press projected. The ballot measure would establish in the state constitution an “individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion.”
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:20 pm
by Kraken
No statewide election here, just lots of local ones. My town had about a dozen races on the ballot, but they were all uncontested except mayor. I voted for the challenger. Polls closed over an hour ago but I don't see results reported yet.
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:44 pm
by Smoove_B
Octavious wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:34 pm
We didn't have anything in NJ. Lame.
We didn't, *but* our elections overall (not only for state positions, but local boards of education) are likely going to serve as a potential predictor of how things are looking in the state for 2024. Sure, it's not a full-on election year so turnout is going to be horrific, however the NJ GOP is really really pushing hard to gain seats and push their agendas into local school boards. I am quite curious (and nervous) to see how things look in our state tomorrow morning.
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:24 pm
by Octavious
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:44 pm
Octavious wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:34 pm
We didn't have anything in NJ. Lame.
We didn't, *but* our elections overall (not only for state positions, but local boards of education) are likely going to serve as a potential predictor of how things are looking in the state for 2024. Sure, it's not a full-on election year so turnout is going to be horrific, however the NJ GOP is really really pushing hard to gain seats and push their agendas into local school boards. I am quite curious (and nervous) to see how things look in our state tomorrow morning.
My town was a shitshow. The incumbent mayor lost the primary and waged a write in campaign. People were reporting that in the polling station the one lady was telling people to write in the current mayor. Which is totally illegal. So ya fun. That certainly motivated me to vote for the one who won the primary as f that shit.
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:52 pm
by Isgrimnur
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:08 pm
I voted YES on 5, 9-11, and 14
I expect to be on the losing end of all of them except #9.
Everything is winning at the moment except 13 (Older judges).
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:39 am
by Daveman
Our local MAGAt State Senator lost, 53-47% to the Democratic candidate who's kind of sleazy but just in your typical NJ politician way so that's a win.
Re: State ballot questions 2023
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:28 pm
by Isgrimnur
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:52 pm
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:08 pm
I voted YES on 5, 9-11, and 14
I expect to be on the losing end of all of them except #9.
Everything is winning at the moment except 13 (Older judges).
And
final with no change.