(11-13-2019, 08:30 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-12-2019, 11:28 PM)Last42min Wrote: Put your cats away, dude. I have no interest in a debate about Amendment 1. The point was that 11 of 12 amendments passed, except the one that would cost counties money. I suspect a disproportionate amount of coverage for the latter, but don't even know where to begin researching that. Even if we exclude the aforementioned amendment, it's completely improbably that informed, partisan citizens approve 11 out of 12 amendments. It is far more likely that people tend to vote yes when they are unsure (even though I would have thought the opposite is more intuitive), or they vote for the position that gets the most coverage. I would imagine the same people with the power to put it on the ballot have the money to push that position. Either way, people aren't informed, and there is very little interest from the powers that be to change that.

I think people abstractly agree with "when in doubt, vote no" but they are not willing to admit, even to themselves, that they are in doubt.
Back in 1787, the US Constitution was ratified by votes from the people at large, and there were probably a lot of uninformed yes votes at that time too.
I suppose a new constitution or amendment has to be "ratified" by people who didn't write it.  You could either have a vote by the people at large like Florida does or you could have people from the next level of government down vote on it as the US Constitution does. Both have drawbacks.  The people have a "yes" bias and the next lower level of government may have a "keep power to ourselves" bias.