After the polls closed, the votes had come in, and the watch party had died out, organizers across the coalition to legalize abortion in Florida lingered inside Ball & Chain bar in Little Havana on Tuesday night, wondering how they had won a majority but lost the race.

Despite millions of dollars poured into ads and other voter outreach, a proposed constitutional amendment that would have protected abortion access in Florida failed Tuesday. Amendment 4, backed by a coalition of groups supporting abortion access,