Florida requires 60% approval for constitutional amendments

'The great irony': Why Florida amendments fail with majority support
"The legislature doesn't want citizens to go over their head so easily," Ric Keller, a Republican congressman during the 2006 session, said about creating the 60% threshold.
Why Florida requires 60% approval for constitutional amendments
The failure of Tuesday's weed and abortion ballot initiatives despite majority support has once again raised the question: What the heck, Florida? The short answer: In 2006, Florida voters passed a constitutional amendment to raise the threshold to pass constitutional amendments from 50% to 60%.
Why Florida's constitutional amendments require approval of 60% of voters
A clear majority of voters supported two amendments to the Florida Constitution on Tuesday while rejecting four.
Florida voters fail to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution
The effort to protect abortion rights faced intense resistance from the start from Republican lawmakers, as well as the DeSantis administration.
Florida’s abortion rights amendment fails despite getting 57% of the vote
Florida’s voters were asked whether the state’s constitution should say that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”
Abortion Rights Amendment Defeated in Florida
In a significant political development, the proposed amendment to protect abortion rights in Florida was defeated. The amendment, which aimed to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution,
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Effort to add abortion rights to Florida's constitution fails
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Florida is the first state to reject an abortion-rights measure
WIPING AWAY tears, Lauren Brenzel, who had led Florida’s campaign to enshrine a constitutional right to an abortion, ...
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Florida's abortion amendment falls short of the 60% threshold to pass
While the proposal received 57% of the vote, it wasn't enough to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution and keeps ...
Should Renatha Francis, Meredith Sasso stay on the Florida Supreme Court? What to know
To date, no Florida judge has ever lost a retention election. Should they hold their seats, Francis and Sasso would each ...
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Florida voters enshrine the right to fish and hunt in state constitution
Specifies that the amendment does not limit the authority granted to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission under ...
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Election 2024: The Florida amendments explained
Sponsored by: The Florida Legislature Summary: Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to require members of a ...