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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 09:53 PM Oct 2018

How is this on the same ballot (Florida Amendment 9)

Florida Amendment 9, the Ban Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling and Ban Vaping in Enclosed Indoor Workplaces Amendment, is on the ballot in Florida as a commission referral on November 6, 2018.[1]

A "yes" vote supports this amendment to:
ban offshore drilling for oil and natural gas on lands beneath all state waters and ban the use of vapor-generating electronic devices, such as electronic cigarettes, in enclosed indoor workplaces.


https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Amendment_9,_Ban_Offshore_Oil_and_Gas_Drilling_and_Ban_Vaping_in_Enclosed_Indoor_Workplaces_Amendment_(2018)


What in the absolute hell do offshore drilling and vaping have to do with each other?

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How is this on the same ballot (Florida Amendment 9) (Original Post) NightWatcher Oct 2018 OP
Beats the living shit outta me. john657 Oct 2018 #1
You're not supposed to be able to do that. Lochloosa Oct 2018 #2
One word, john657 Oct 2018 #3
Professor Little who taught Florida Con Law at UF says violates law soryang Oct 2018 #4
 

john657

(1,058 posts)
1. Beats the living shit outta me.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 09:56 PM
Oct 2018

Maybe they decided to combine the 2 instead of 2 separate Amendments?

soryang

(3,299 posts)
4. Professor Little who taught Florida Con Law at UF says violates law
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 10:10 PM
Oct 2018
Earlier this year, the commission approved eight proposed constitutional amendments, including two single-subject measures and six that combined multiple constitutional changes.

But Joseph Little, an emeritus law professor from the University of Florida who represented Anstead and co-plaintiff Robert Barnas, said the bundling of issues, such as combining a ban on offshore oil drilling with a ban on vaping in workplaces, is an “infringement” of voting rights.

“This bundling forces a voter to vote yes for a measure the voter opposes in order to vote yes for a measure the voter favors,” Little said.


https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2018/09/07/florida-judges-weigh-bundled-constitutional.html

I remembered this from his Florida Con Law class decades ago. The issue was before the court Sep 7. I don't know the current status.
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