Florida’s 60 percent rule may doom amendments on ballot
By Howard Troxler, Times Columnist Monday, October 25, 2010 Floridians might have made the biggest decision of the 2010 election already — back in 2006. Four years ago, we decided that future amendments to our state Constitution would need more than 60 percent of the vote to pass. Students of irony, take note: That change passed by only 57.8 percent. But it passed fair and square under the rules …

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