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2024 Election Ballot Measures: Abortion, Immigration and More (www.nbcnews.com)

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Everyone is so caught up in the President and Senate races, it's worth looking at key ballot measures.

The amount of states that don't know it's already illegal for non-citizens to vote is too damn high!

Arizona - Right to Abortion. Yes 61 to 39
Colorado - Right to Abortion. Yes 62 to 38
Florida - Right to Abortion. No 43 to 57 - Needed Yes >= 60 to pass.
Maryland - Right to Abortion. Yes 74 to 26
Missouri - Right to Abortion. Yes 52 to 48
Montana - Right to Abortion. Yes 58 to 42
Nebraska - Right to Abortion. Too Close To Call.
61,000 votes remaining, "No" is +21,000
Nebraska - Prohibit abortions after 1st Trimester - Yes 55 to 45
Nevada - Right to Abortion. Yes 64 to 36
New York - Right to Abortion. Yes 62 to 38
South Dakota - Right to Abortion. No 59 to 41

Alaska - Repeal ranked choice. Too close to call.
111,000 votes remaining, "Yes" is +4,000
Colorado - Ranked Choice. Too close to call.
762,000 ballots remaining, "No" +247,551
D.C. - Ranked Choice. Yes 73 to 27
Idaho - Ranked Choice. No 70 to 30.
Missouri - Citizen voting, ban ranked choice. Yes 68 to 32
Nevada - Ranked Choice. No 54 to 46
Oregon - Ranked Choice. No 60 to 40
South Dakota - Top 2 Primary. No 65 to 35

Idaho - Citizen voting. Yes 65 to 35
Iowa - Citizen voting +17 year olds. Yes 77 to 23. Kentucky - Citizen voting. Yes 63 to 37
Missouri - Citizen voting, ban ranked choice. Yes 68 to 32 North Carolina - Citizen voting. Yes 78 to 22
Oklahoma - Citizen voting. Yes 80 to 20
South Carolina - Citizen voting. Yes 85 to 15
Wisconsin - Citizen voting. Yes 66 to 34

Alaska - Increase Minimum Wage. Too close to call.
114,000 ballots outstanding, "Yes" +31,000
Arizona - Decrease Minimum Wage. No 75 to 25
California - Increase Minimum Wage. Too close to call.
7.1 million ballots left. "No" +390,000
Massachusetts - Increase Minimum Wage. No 64 to 36.
Missouri - Minimum Wage + paid sick leave. Yes 57 to 43

Florida - Legal weed. No 44 to 56, needed Yes >= to 60 to pass.
North Dakota - Legal weed. No 53 to 47
South Dakota - Legal weed. No 55 to 45

Arizona - Border Enforcement. Yes 63 to 37
Arizona - Eliminate partisan primaries. No 58 to 42

California - Marriage rights, repeal prop 8 - Yes 61 to 39

Connecticut - Absentee Voting. Too close to call.
473,000 ballots remaining, "Yes" +174,753

Nevada - Voter ID. Yes 73 to 27

Ohio - Citizen Redistricting. No 54 to 46

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The rejection of ranked choice is just stunning to me...

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It's really easy to convince people that "different" is worse, it seems.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In Colorado, both the republican and democratic party came out against RCV.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Of course they did. For them there's nothing to be gained and everything to lose. The only way ranked choice happens is if it's shoved down the throats of the GOP and DNC.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Not listed here, but California voted against outlawing slavery for prisoners.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So many rebuttals of ranked choice. Insane.

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

I know in Colorado the rank choice was bundled with an all candidate consolidated primary. I think there was too much change in one bundle, each one would have done better as it's own ballot initiative.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Note on the one that I know, Massachusetts was only a change to the minimum wage for tipped workers. (And I'm sad it failed). The restaurant industry spent solid cash on this.

Edit: also in MA was the right for Uber drivers to unionize, and that looked like it passed last I checked.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Kentucky also voted NO on a proposed constitutional amendment that would give the state legislator power to siphon funds from the public school system to give to private schools.

Small victory in spite of everything else, but a victory none the less