Voter Turnout: Texas Toast
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Yesterday I blogged the following regarding the vote on Texas' bigot amendment:
In other words, 84% of registered Texas voters just don't give a damn about gay marriage.
That seems like pretty good news to me, all things considered.
Keep that 84% number in mind when you here that Texans "overwhelmingly" passed the amendment.
The only thing that Texans "overwhelmingly" did on Election Day was stay home and watch television.
Now if we could just get the puny handful of bigots still making their hateful noise to do the same...
The turnout is feared to be as low as ten percent. If referenda and initiatives are meant to reflect "the will of the people" (as if the "will of the people" trumps basic human rights and dignities), then why not impose, as legislatures do, a quorum requirement for any ballot proposition to be binding?Well, the turnout was actually about 16%.
In other words, 84% of registered Texas voters just don't give a damn about gay marriage.
That seems like pretty good news to me, all things considered.
Keep that 84% number in mind when you here that Texans "overwhelmingly" passed the amendment.
The only thing that Texans "overwhelmingly" did on Election Day was stay home and watch television.
Now if we could just get the puny handful of bigots still making their hateful noise to do the same...
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9 November 2005
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